In a change of pace, we have a few issues to triage during this meeting and even closed out our months-old "to be discussed" issue. And now we're back to zero issues!
WiX Online Meeting #184 Highlights
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Issue triage
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Extensions should version their ids, from yours truly, finally came back around with its own discussion. In the end, we decided that table names and custom action ids would get a
Wix4prefix and an architecture-specific suffix. Assemblies and NuGet packages will be namedWixToolset.Extensionwithv4.x.yversioning. -
WixCreateInternetShortcuts: Error 0x80070057: failed to set shortcut, from @kmackey1, reports an error trying to install an Internet shortcut on a particular localized OS. That’ll be difficult to reproduce but prompted the idea that we should have a way to prevent shortcut failures from rolling back the installation. We took the issue into WiX v4.x.
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ExecXmlFile fails for ARM64 MSIs and Compiler doesn’t step version up to 500 for ARM64 MSIs, both from @marswe, reports a couple of minor issues with the newly-released build of WiX v3.14 with ARM64 support. I took both issues for investigation and quick fixes.
Meeting time
With daylight-saving time fast approaching in the United States but still a month out for Sean in the Southern Hemisphere. So starting at our next meeting on 18-March, we’ll be meeting at 2:00pm PDT. Set your clocks ahead and join us then.