0. ARP shows you the version of the product installed and the directory name provides a quick glimpse of the version since opening the MSI can take more time.
1. WiX does support you naming your MSI whatever you want. You may just have to do more work on your end if it isn't something that is commonly needed. -----Original Message----- From: Colin Fox [mailto:greenene...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 09:39 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Getting the version from the Assembly file Let's take the release of Wix 3 as an example. I'm actually the first in my company to start using it. I want to make sure that everyone is on the same version. But if the msi file is called "wix3.msi" - how do they know whether or not that is the version they need to install? Regardless - the way our software has been released for over 2 years now is by .msi files uploaded to our website, each with a version number in it. Other platforms use version numbers in package names to make things less confusing to users. Is there some reason wix doesn't support this? I can't see what problem there would be, particularly considering the liberal use of GUIDs for tracking things. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Rob Mensching <rob.mensch...@microsoft.com>wrote: > And no, it isn't common (in my experience). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 09:26 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Getting the version from the Assembly file > > Colin Fox wrote: > > I'm not sure why you say that this is rare or dangerous. > > > > Because MSI doesn't support changing the .msi package name except by > major upgrade. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- Regards, cf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
