Who knew that a how to topic on generating GUIDs could get so complicated. Thanks guys :)
Neil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Ginchereau Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:46 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Mixed-case guids Candle upper-cases the guids for you. But many other MSI tools and APIs don't, so one could make a pedantic argument that it's better to have them upper-case in the source code for better copy-pasting. -Jason- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Enns Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:32 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Mixed-case guids Does Votive do the actual conversion or is it candle.exe? Neil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Shevchuk Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:07 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Mixed-case guids >Does anyone know why mixed-case guids generate and error from candle if >you turn on the -pendantic flag? Is it just a coding style or is there a >problem with them? (It looks like candle forces them uppercase in the >wixobj file.) That's because GUID type in windows installer (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368767(VS.85).aspx) requires letters to be uppercase. The fact that Votive creates GUIDs in mixed case and silently converts them to upper case during compilation is another story. Alex PS. Weird. I had to subscribe again to be able to send this response. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
