My thought here is that there is user data. There are going to be a bunch of event log entries written to a log by an application and there's going to be an event source associated with them.
No? In general I agree with you but what are your thoughts with this exact scenario? ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 10:51 AM To: "Christopher Painter" <chr...@iswix.com>, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Event source sharing Please don't mark things permanent that are part of your application. Have your application clean up correctly. The only time you should think about leaving stuff is for user generated data (including user settings). On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com> wrote: If you look at the built MSI, you'll see EventSource is just some syntactic sugar to express simple registry keys/values. Create a component in a fragment / wix library and mark it as shared. Then do a ComponentRef in your various installers and they will all "share" that component. Last one off will remove it. Or you could just mark it as permanent and not worry about it so much. I probably would because any event log entries are likely to stick around long after your applications have been uninstalled. ---------------------------------------- From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 10:09 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Event source sharing Hi everyone, I'm getting the hang of Util:EventSource, and I realized our original plan was to have several of our applications (which are all "of a kind" - they are a bunch of collection instruments which are from the perspective of installation more or less identical) share a source. If one MSI installs the EventSource originally, and another application attempts to install it ... (a) What happens on install? I seem to see that this collision is harmless. (b) What happens on uninstall of *one* of the applications? Is there reference counting so that this does nothing to the source until the last application is removed? Do they have to share components or anything like that for this to work, or is the naming sufficient? Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
