Re: RFC: File vitality

Bob,

>From my POV, I'd say that having the option on should be the default,
but allow for it to be disabled.

I don't know if it is a good idea or not... but it might also be nice to
have a way to disable the option easily for multiple files, but not
necessarily all files, in a WiX fragment - I.e. within a Component or
Directory, have a mechanism to say "files associated with this do not
need msidbFileAttributesVital", rather than having to set it for each
file individually.

Obviously if anything of the type were implemented, explicit settings in
a File element should always take precedence.

Just my initial thoughts....
Regards,
Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users-bounces@...
[mailto:wix-users-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 12:04 AM
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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