My thinking: If the application is removed, the archived event log entries aren't interesting any longer.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com>wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
