WiX Online Meeting #190 Highlights

Today we had not a single issue to triage so rather than making this installment of meeting highlights extra-simple for me to write, we decided to triage all the open WiX v3.x pull requests to see which we'd take in WiX v3.14, which we'd take in WiX v4.0, and which we won't take.

WiX v3 pull request review

WIXFEAT:5575,5977 - Add .NET 4.7.2 and .NET 4.8 to NetFxExtension, from @rseanhall, adds new package groups to WixNetFxExtension and was merged into WiX v3.14.
Fix discovery of payloads with mo container that need to be assigned to the default container., from @nirbar, was labeled for WiX v4.0.
Add support for outbound firewall rules, from @kowalsk84, was accepted for WiX v3.14 but the pull request has outstanding issues that are blocking it from being merged right now.
Ftr multiple attached containers, from @nirbar, has outstanding issues and needs design work before it could be accepted into WiX v4.0.
WIP: Fix wix3 CA building for sdk-style .csproj format, from @jakubsuchybio, wasn’t ready for WiX v3.14 and works as expected in WiX v4.0.
Add support for two new controls to standard bootstrapper, from @jozefizso, was merged into WiX v3.14.
WIXBUG:5286 - Fix the issue ‘Burn: Prerequisite bootstrapper application, from @DemiDOS, needs additional design for how to handle user interaction and was labeled for WiX v4.0.
Fixes wixtoolset/issues#6031, from @BMurri, was merged into WiX v3.14.
wixstdba: Add auto-launch option via ‘AutoLaunch’ variable., from @nickdademo, needs a bit of design discussion and was labeled for WiX v4.0.
Make sure Light task’s output matches OutputFile, from @pascalpfeil, was labeled for WiX v4.0 to ensure that the output works as expected already. Otherwise, it’s a cosmetic issue and touching the MSBuild targets is something we want to avoid as much as possible in WiX v3.14.
Update documentation to include CNDL1150 warning, from @directionless, was merged into WiX v3.14.
Localize missing entries in Slovak translation, from @jozefizso, was merged into WiX v3.14.
[wix3] Display more specific error message when UpdateFileRow cannot access a file, from @jozefizso, has outstanding issues so was labeled for WiX v4.0.
Fix #5859 (Melt crashes melting MSIs with elevated privileges), from @dtuchlinsky, has outstanding issues and is not an issue WiX v4.0 (due to no longer using the problematic TempFileCollection class).
Fix crashing bug in finalizer, from @wangzq, has outstanding issues so was labeled for WiX v4.0.
Add option to suppress hard links, from @NeoAdonis, was declined for WiX v3.14. It can be accomplished with an extension for now. It’s an open topic for WiX v4.0.
Fix period conistency in dialog description strings by appending a period (issue 5317), from @bergmeister, caused some style, UI, and language discussion. In the end, we decided the better answer was probably to remove periods from labels that aren’t really meant to be sentences and I took the action item to investigate for Wizard97 style guidance.
update localization for korean, from @zacronan, was not needed.
Fix #4250, from @zoli13, was merged into WiX v3.14.
Fix for pathLengths, Issue 5314, from @qlik-pwe, was insufficient to entirely fix the underlying issue.
Working version of support for “No Managed Code” for managedRuntimeVersion, from @jmcooper8654, was for illustration purposes only so we didn’t merge it but did label it for investigation in WiX v4.0.
Support for the VS 2017 VSIX installer., from @dosvidos, was insufficient to solve the difficult and probably unsolvable problem of VSIX installation via MSI.
Some LEADTools dlls create bad default values for some keys that include null characters and other garbage. Truncate REG_SZ values at the first null character., from @cessna048, loses data so we didn’t take it. For WiX v4.0, we should consider whether we can harvest the entire string and create authoring using [~] to represent embedded null characters.
Issue #5601: Support RemotePayload for and Payload (not just ExePackage), from @nirbar, was labeled for WiX v4.0.
Fix typo in CloseApps.cpp, from @dtaylor84, was merged into WiX v3.14.
Prevent repairing of .NET prerequisite package, from @dvorn, was merged into WiX v3.14.
Add support for ru-ru in utilextensions, from @vasa911, was merged into WiX v3.14.