I failed to find the one you're talking about, thus created a new one: 2612975 Thank you.
-- Yan -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:53 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature request: extending PermissionEx element with inheritance option I think this feature request is already open. If not, it has been asked before and someone forgot to open the request. Yan Sklyarenko wrote: > Hello WiX developers, > > I'm going to file a feature request and would like to verify if it's > worth registering. > > The actual custom action, which PermissionEx element results in, called > ExecSecureObjects considers SUB_CONTAINERS_AND_OBJECTS_INHERIT option > the best for folders and NO_INHERITANCE for everything else. > I think it would be nice to extend PermissionEx element with extra > attribute, Inherit, resulting in an extra column in SecureObjects table. > Of course, this should make sense for CreateFolder and Registry entities > only. And instead of hard coding the inheritance options, the > ExecSecureObjects action will read it from CustomActionData. > > The reason I consider it helpful is when applying permissions to > existent folder with lots of files and subfolders, this takes time. > Especially if there's no recursion required... > > Are there any pitfalls in this extension? > If not, what are the chances for it to be implemented soon? :-) > > (I know I always have a fallback option to implement it myself :-)) > > Thank you. > > -- Yan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
