Well, it is Windows Installer. :-)
Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me --- On Thu, 6/12/08, Neil Enns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Neil Enns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Mixed-case guids > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 2:53 PM > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
