John, You're right light.exe replaces the default version, I just checked my msi with orca and found the 'old' version number there.
At the time I made this change I also fixed something in the setup so it always does a major upgrade, that probably solved my problem. Good luck, Valentijn Makkenze Vicrea Solutions B.V. Postbus 1489 3800 BL Amersfoort tel: 033-4604080 fax: 033-4604088 gsm: 06-29011926 www.vicrea.nl -----Original Message----- From: John Hatton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:41 AM To: Valentijn Makkenze Subject: Re: [WiX-users] My installer ate my file Valentijn, Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, setting DefaultVersion to "9.9.9" didn't seem to have any effect. Maybe I screwed up, but I'm having trouble getting any useful documentation on this attribute. The wix docs just say " This is the default version of this file. The linker will replace this value from the value in the file if the suppress files option is not used." This is confusing to me. "Replace this... from... that"? If it said "replace the value in the file with this value", that would at least make grammatical sense. If "default" means "if the file is missing a version number, this will used", that would make sense, too. I would guess that was the intended meaning. But if so, that's not going to help me, because all the assemblies I work with are versioned already. In a 2003 blog post, Rob wrote: "Of course, you can override that rule ... and force all the files in a Component to get installed even if some of the files exist with newer versions..." but then didn't describe how. This was perhaps written in the days where it was less common to just install all the pieces you need for a product in its own directory, avoiding dll hell. Now, it seems to me, most simple apps, installing stuff only to their own directly, would want exactly this behavoir. Do you think DefaultVersion should have worked? Other ideas? Thanks John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
