WiX Toolset
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When authoring a patch after updating to wix4 I noticed that all short names for directories and files has changed. Has the algorithm changed, and if so can you configure it to use the old one so I don't have to manually specify all the short names? Or is it possible some other change I've done when converting our .wxs files to wix4 has triggered this? |
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When patching, you will want to stick to the same version of the WiX Toolset that you used to build the original package. Patching is super sensitive to all sorts of changes that we don't guarantee to be stable across WiX versions, especially not major WiX versions. |
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I'll have to test, but won't changing only the short name of a file in a component also cause issues for major upgrades if you schedule RemoveExistingProducts after InstallFinalize? |
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Only if you install using short filenames. |
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Hopefully not something clients mess with but I guess it is better to be safe and ensure they do not change. Thanks again. |
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Very few modern applications will work if forced to install using short file names because it es extremely rare for developers to limit all of their file names to 8.3. It's just not a realistic issue. |
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Ok, so you get the short names only in that case. Yeah, that'll definitely break things so non issue for us. Sorry for the noise. |
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When patching, you will want to stick to the same version of the WiX Toolset that you used to build the original package. Patching is super sensitive to all sorts of changes that we don't guarantee to be stable across WiX versions, especially not major WiX versions.