We skipped a meeting last Friday because too many participants were still in a Thanksgiving food coma. This week we had a full crew on the bench in the call and triaged six issues.
WiX Online Meeting #91 Highlights
Friday, December 4, 2015
Issue triage
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Bug 4991 | Error in Burn does not reach custom bootstrapper application requests that when a related bundle is registered on the machine but not actually present in the package cache, a BA should be notified. Currently, Burn just logs about the missing bundle. Because an interface change is needed to handle this, we opened the issue in WiX v4.0.
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Feature 4976 | Add support for .net framework 4.6.1 in netfxExtension is a request to support the now-latest .NET Framework that was released earlier this week. That’s a fine idea so we opened it in WiX v3.x.
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Feature 4975 | Command line /passive /promptrestart is not showing the restart dialog started out as a simple case of most everyone agreeing that the
/passiveshould override the/promptrestartswitch and not show any modal UI to prompt for a restart. The bug reporter indicated that the .NET Framework installer command line supports/promptrestartexplicitly when/passiveis also used. Windows Installer works the same way Burn does—or perhaps it’s vice-versa—where/promptrestarthas no effect when/passiveis used. However, after the meeting, I discovered that because of how Burn parses the command line,/passive /promptrestartwill restart without prompting but/promptrestart /passivewill prompt if a restart is required. That seems wrong, so I kept the bug open for discussion in WiX v4.0, where we might change that behavior. -
Bug 4973 | Error 18 displayed when using Embedded UI, if a dialog stays on screen more than 30 minutes is today’s most interesting bug, because you don’t normally hear about bugs that occur when you’re literally doing nothing. In this case, however, the problem seems to be a limitation in MSI’s support for embedded UI.
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Bug 4943 | bootstrapper UpdateReplace with perUser InstallScope updates incorrectly came back with the requested logs, so we’re leaving the bug untriaged until we’ve had a chance to investigate.
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Bug 2305 | ‘Content’ and ‘Satellites’ project types do not do anything was a bug from more than six years ago that was reopened to report the same harvesting problem happening with Visual Studio 2015. We opened the bug in WiX v3.x to investigate.
WiX v3.10.2
We’ve been working with Microsoft on the Windows vulnerability that can be exposed via Burn bundles. Microsoft has requested that we not issue our fix until January 2016’s Patch Tuesday. We’ll plan the release of WiX v3.10.2 then.