WiX Online Meeting #154 Highlights

We had only a few issues to triage, so today's meeting was brief and to the point. Likewise, so is this highlights recap.

Issue triage

Nesting localized strings not working recursively, from @SokoFromNZ, laments that localization strings don’t support arbitrary levels of recursion when referring to other localization strings. Today, it’s just one level: A localization string can include other localization strings. Rob agreed to take a look at this in WiX v4.0.
Melt.exe crashes when melting an MSI and running with elevated privileges, from @dtuchlinsky, reports that when Melt.exe throws an exception when running elevated (really?!) and with a recent .NET Framework update. As it’s a failure caused by a .NET Framework change, we’d take a fix in WiX v3.14 if it’s simple and safe. Otherwise, because of architectural changes, WiX v4.0 doesn’t suffer from the problem.
Light fails with error about not finding a directory, from @kskalski, came back after some extensive research into the root cause by @jchoover, who discovered that WiX was upper-casing a file path as part of adding a file to a cabinet. Rob volunteered to make sure this is something that WiX v4.0 doesn’t do.