I'd be very surprised if anyone could answer that question, certainly not reliably and completely. As the message clearly says, it's unsupported; and as the message helpfully explains, that means it's not guaranteed to work. That means anything can happen. Developers of everything which ever touches these names have been free to build in the assumption that they have short names, or may even have built such assumptions in by accident. Such assumptions could get added at any time. Perhaps long names will always work perfectly in all situations. Perhaps they'll cause very subtle problems which are extremely hard to diagnose in very particular circumstances. Perhaps they'll cause frequent obvious failures.
The one thing you can be sure of is that if they do cause problems you won't get any support. > From: Ondrej Zarevucky [mailto:ondrej.zarevu...@fine.cz] > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:47 PM > > Hi everybody, > I have question about these two warnings thrown by Candle and Light > tools: CNDL1033 and LGHT1079 - both are about long cabinet file names. > > The warning is telling me I should use short (8.3) file names > referencing some Windows Installer team recommendation, but I > couldn't find any documentation describing the compatibility problems > I can encounter. I would prefer using long file names for easier > work with the cabinet files. ("Program_Help_EN.CAB" is better name > then "Prog_HEN.CAB") > > Can you please tell me, what compatibility problems could result from > using long cabinet names? I'm targeting Windows XP with Windows > Installer 3.1. > > Thank you for clarification > > Sample warning from Candle: > Media.wxi(15) : warning CNDL1033 : The Media/@Cabinet > attribute's value, 'LongCabinetName.CAB', is not a valid > external cabinet name. Legal cabinet names must follow 8.3 > format: they should contain no more than 8 characters followed > by an optional extension of no more than 3 characters. Any > character except for the follow may be used: \ ? | > < > : / * " + , ; = [ ] (space). The Windows Installer team has > recommended following the 8.3 format for external cabinet > files and any other naming scheme is officially unsupported > (which means its not guaranteed to work on all platforms). > > Have a nice day > zarevak ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
