1. Sure, hacks are always a good idea. 2. Oh, if you set ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT then you are on your own. I haven't dug into the Uninstall key enough to know if/how to set the version. It is entirely possible that it is a MSI only thing in ARP.
Ahn Ahn Liu wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > 1. Too bad about not being able to control it. Since our chainer just calls > a bunch of other packages and doesn't actually install anything itself the > size shown is only 7.6MB when in reality, it's over 3GB! Maybe I'll check > with the Shell team to see if there's any hack around it. > > 2. I set product/@Version to 1.0.0.0 but the arp entry still shows it as > blank... I'm setting ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT to 1, so I imagine that's why it's > not pulling the version from product/@version. I also set the > windows\currentversion\uninstall\version and productversion field to 1.0.0.0 > but that unfortunately does change the arp version field either. Any other > ideas on this one? > > Thanks, > > Ahn AHn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:13 PM > To: Ahn Ahn Liu > Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting Estimated Size and Version > > 1. ARPSIZE is set magically by ARP. There is no real way to control it. > Raymond Chen (Master of all things Shell) had a fun blog entry about how > ARP calculated the size it displayed there. The fact that it took him a > couple paragraphs is telling. > > 2. AFAIK, the ARP Version is controlled by the Product/@Version > (ProductVersion in MSI speak). > > PS: In case you didn't know, ARP is the Shell team's fault not the > Windows Installer team's fault. > > Ahn Ahn Liu wrote: > >> I was wondering if it was possible to set the size and version that >> shows up for a given program in ARP when I set ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT to >> 1. For size, it seems like setting ARPSIZE or EstimatedSize has no >> effect. I'm also unsure how to set the Version. Does anybody have an idea? >> >> Thanks! >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
