Re: RFC: File vitality

I would suggest this presumes that the person doing the install knows what they are doing! In a corporate environment that may be true and in that case you could build installs with vital off (having said that most of our installs are run silently so failing is a better option). I think the install failing is preferable to having a support call because one “vital” file is missing.

Neil

I would vote for make vital true by default with the option of setting
it off via the command line. I have never really thought there are many
occasions when making a file optional would be ok. I would guess that a
lot of installs (mine included) don't set this but that clicking
"ignore" would actually break the install.

Neil

Neil Sleightholm
X2 Systems Limited
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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users-bounces@...
[mailto:wix-users-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson
Sent: 04 May 2008 05:04
To: WiX-users
Subject: [WiX-users] RFC: File vitality

I just posted a request for comments on my blog, to ask about a change
we're considering to simplify WiX authoring. You can see the post here:

http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/05/03/rfc-vitality/

The short version is that we're considering marking all files with the
msidbFileAttributesVital bit set by default. That's a behavior change
and we wanted to get feedback before deciding either way. Please read
the whole post and let us know what you think, either via blog post
comments or mail on this list.

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