I think the point is all of this is pointless and yes, quite useless to the vast majority of the world.
Case in point.. Rename SomeDotNetAssembly.dll to SomeDo~1.dll or some other hashed/transformed representation like WiX does and try referencing the classes in it after it's installed. The CLR will throw an exception in a heartbeat. I suppose someone out there still needs this functionality but it's got to be a .00001% use case by now. If I'm wrong, I'd love to know of real world use cases other then someone might be trying to do an HTTP stream ( which no one does anyways ) or passing a public property that would break my application anyways. 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 Sat, 10/17/09, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: > From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are short names even useful anymore? > To: d...@tramontana.co.hu, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML > toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 10:39 AM > That and if you try to use the > "install an MSI over HTTP" (which is such a > pain to deal with it isn't worth it) the Windows Installer > will use short > names as well. Oh, and the user can technically speaking > always pass in the > SHORTFILENAMES Property and force your MSI to use short > filenames. > I don't quite follow the question though. MSI requires > short filenames. WiX > v3 will auto-generate them in a stable and highly-unlikely > to collide sort > of way. Why does it matter? > > virtually, Rob Mensching - http://robmensching.com > > 2009/10/17 DEÁK JAHN, Gábor <d...@tramontana.co.hu> > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:17:32 -0700, Blair wrote: > > > > Blair, > > > > the last time I heard this question mentioned from > some of the developers, > > maybe Rob, the answer always was that the only real > reason for short names > > was that some old Novel servers couldn't cope with > long names and removing > > this would make it impossible to make network > installations on those > > servers. I don't know if this is still an issue > today. > > > > Bye, > > Gábor > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > DEÁK JAHN, Gábor -- Budapest, Hungary > > E-mail: d...@tramontana.co.hu > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer > Conference in SF, CA > > is the only developer event you need to attend this > year. Jumpstart your > > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications > to market and stay > > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, > 2009. Register now! > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference > in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. > Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to > market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
