The developers are a vendor to whom we pay an astonishing amount of money. I'm just opening a defect and telling them it's stupid.
I'm sure someone at some level (even if I have to make it up to my Senior Director talking to their CTO) will make them see the light. On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Phil Wilson <phildgwil...@gmail.com>wrote: > Sometimes, if you explain to them that the entire Windows update method for > everything (their updates, Windows hotfixes, patches, service packs etc) is > based on file versions they might come around. If not, make the caveat that > everything they attempt will be more work and more unreliable. > > Phil Wilson > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com > >wrote: > > > Understood. I've dealt with these types over the years. I don't have > much > > patience for it and can usually things done the right way. But when it > > becomes obvious that the mountain will not move, I break out my bag of > > tricks to keep the train moving. I prefer not to though. > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > From: "Walter Dexter" <wfdex...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:18 AM > > To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset." > > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File version > > > > Thanks a lot, Chris. I was 99.9% sure that was the case. > > > > It's a Java program. They haven't said, but based on strings in the > > executable, they're Ej-technologies' exe4j to make an EXE. > > > > Based on the exe4j documentation, one step on the way through the wizard > > is > > to set the version resource values, so it doesn't seem like it should be > > hard. What they said was "their developers had a meeting and decided to > do > > this" when I asked them to put in version resources. So 0.0.0.0 as a file > > version is a conscious decision! > > > > These guys are "interesting" to work with sometimes. > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Christopher Painter > > <chr...@iswix.com>wrote: > > > > > Yes, that's going to be a problem. There are ways to mitigate it but > is > > > there any chance they can fix this? What tool are they using to make > > the > > > EXE? > > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > > From: "Walter Dexter" <wfdex...@gmail.com> > > > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:17 AM > > > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > > > <WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > > Subject: [WiX-users] File version > > > > > > Hi, folks. > > > > > > Sorry to ask such naive (and honestly, non-WiX) questions, but... > > > > > > when installing from an MSI, Windows Installer makes decisions on EXE > > > files > > > based on the file version resource in the file, right? > > > > > > I have a vendor releasing software to me where they've set the Product > > > version in their EXE and intend to increment it as versions change, but > > > they have set the File version to 0.0.0.0 and don't intend to ever > > change > > > it. > > > > > > I have no idea why they think this is sensible behavior, but it's what > > > they > > > intend to do. > > > > > > I get the joy of packaging their stuff into MSI, so I'm hoping someone > > can > > > tell me if this is going to be a problem when upgrading. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Walt > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > > > Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform > > > that > > > developers love is also attractive to malware creators. 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