Just to close the loop on this, WiX 3.8 will be removing WixPdbPath: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4152/
robmen wrote > Many people move it to a drop location that is laid out identically as the > build machine with a different root. We can work with that. pyro already > has support for such gymnastics when using bindpaths. > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Alex Ivanoff < > aivanoff@ > > wrote: > >> Exactly my point: how often do you build an installer and not move it to >> some drop location? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rob Mensching [mailto: > rob@ > ] >> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 10:52 >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WixPdbPath property >> >> If for some reason that is sensitive information for you, you can >> suppress >> the information. The property would not be as helpful if you copy into a >> completely different tree on the drop location. >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Alex Ivanoff < > aivanoff@ > > >> wrote: >> >> > This property contains a full local path, which may contain sensitive >> > information. What value does the full path have after the file was >> > copied from the build server to a drop location? >> > >> > >> > On Dec 24, 2012, at 23:50 , Rob Mensching < > rob@ > > wrote: >> > >> > > Property to help tools find the .wixpdbs in (hopefully) near future. >> > > If >> > it >> > > was off by default, 99.9% of people wouldn't have it on when they >> > > needed. >> > > > <smile/> >> > > >> > > >> > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Alex Ivanoff < > aivanoff@ > > >> > wrote: >> > > >> > >> WiX 3.6.3303. >> > >> >> > >> I just noticed WixPdbPath property in Property table of all of our >> > >> installers. 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