Hey Anthony, The "shut up" commands you need for light "-sice:<ICE> suppress an internal consistency evaluator (ICE)" or "-sval suppress MSI/MSM validation".
light.exe -sice:ICE83 -sice:ICE39 or light.exe -sval Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Anthony F <eatme...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you, all, for the help. At this point I think I'm going to abandon > WiX and bite the bullet and just rebuild my VS .Net 2005 dev environment. > It's not my goal to fix the problems that exist within the Crystal merge > module or wrestle WiX into submission and force it to deal with the mess... > I just want to get something working to my client. Unless WiX can just shut > up (yeah, yeah... it's not "correct", WiX. Get off yer high horse and do as > you're told! :) and build the thing exactly as VS .Net does, I don't see a > point in continuing down this path. > > I've been in this game long enough to know that being technically and > theoretically correct is something you contemplate while sipping sangria on > a sunny beach somewhere with money you made from just getting stuff working > ;P Believe me, a client will never care how many warnings or errors WiX > gives and that VS hides if the package ends up working on their machine > (which the previous VS installer did) > > What I find very odd about this, though, is that I worked for Crystal > several moons (and mergers) ago and they had a very competent team working > on the installers. I actually worked on the VS .Net 2005 integration > (codenamed Granville to Microsoft's Whidbey) and I recall rigorous testing > of the merge modules, or at least I THOUGHT that's what they were doing. I > had no idea what going on over in their little corner, but I never imagined > that they would pump out this kind of drek. I guess, though, their job was > just to get it working within VS .Net so they didn't really pay attention to > the technical "correctness" of the final product. It works very well within > VS .Net (ummm... errr... I mean "very well" relative to all other Crystal > products :) > > Thanks again! > > > Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 21:58:23 -0400 > > From: b...@joyofsetup.com > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Frustrated... can't get a simple installer to > work > > > > Anthony F wrote: > > > I'll be the first to admit that I'm by no means an expert in the art of > creating install packages, but if VS can handle the messed up msm, shouldn't > wix be able to as well? I thought (I may be WAY wrong on this) that the VS > packager was based on wix? > > > > > > > It is not based on WiX. And the packages you create with a flawed merge > > module are flawed regardless of how you consume them. WiX is showing you > > the errors, whereas .vdproj projects hide them. > > > > -- > > sig://boB > > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks > to > > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK > i700 > > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > _________________________________________________________________ > Create a cool, new character for your Windows Live™ Messenger. > http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9656621 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK > i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
