I'll be uploading the triage meetings to YouTube soon (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVJeW1mjSujNPfsCQhsg7qQ) where we discuss this issue.
It came down to the fact that what you are doing is very unusual. Since it's so unusual, you should manage the GUID manually. It certainly isn't a design we'd generally encourage. _______________________________________________________________ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Jesper Alf Dam [mailto:j...@medical-insight.com] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 1:13 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] What problems can occur with versioned companion files? I recently filed bug 4448, in which the following response was posted: Versioned companion files are atypical and would seem to bring their own problems for upgrades and patching. We don't plan to expand * GUIDs to cover this case. That bug is probably not the right place to ask this, so I'm posting it here instead: What are those problems with upgrades and patching? I recently posted a question here about overriding file versions (so that an installer containing a few third-party files whose versions have decreased will still install those files over the ones that were already in place when doing an upgrade), and the solution I settled on (the only one which didn't require me to suppress one or more consistency checks) was to mark these files as companions so their own version is disregarded. From what I've been able to test, that works fine, but the comment above makes me wonder if I'm missing anything. Thanks, Jesper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
