Thanks for the confirmation Bob. To support a distributed agile project we had to come up with a way around this, so we made a custom extension which essentially makes the path of each file into its Id. Of course, this results in many "Id attribute is too long identifier" warnings, but so far it has not made a (noticeable) difference.
Which leads to the next question: What might be the downside of not heeding this warning? So far I haven't seen Ids that are non-unique within their first 72 characters. However, I haven't looked that hard to find any. Thanks, Raj -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 1:32 PM To: Tanikella, Rajanikanth (SCR US) Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Heating Directories with Identically Named Files Tanikella, Rajanikanth (SCR US) wrote: > The question is: As heat encounters identically named files it gives > them unique Component Ids. If it is run multiple times, does heat > consistently arrive at the same ids each time it is run? > No, which is why Heat is advertised as a one-time tool; it doesn't maintain stable IDs between runs. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
