[wix-devs] WIP: Deprecate and remove Package element

[Phill Hogland]

To elaborate on the concern that I posted yesterday, the scenario where we need to set Product/@Manufacturer to a different value than Package/@Manufacturer is not limited to redistribution of third-party drivers.


We also have internally created drivers for which the division which created the drivers, used a slightly different spelling of our company name in the Manufacturer section of the driver's INF file, than the spelling of our company name used for all of our MSI (Product and Package) specifications.  So for this group of drivers each MSI has a different spelling of our Company name for Product/@Manufacturer (to match the INF file) than is used for Package/@Manufacturer.  Unlike my practice when redistributing a third-party driver, for these internally created drivers I do not specify a Package/@Comments field.


I believe the the requirement, imposed by the WixDifxAppExtension, that the Product/@Manufacturer must match the name as specified in the driver's INF file's Manufacturer section, is really a defect of the WixDifxAppExtension implementation, but I have not fully researched that assumption.

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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3:18:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP: Deprecate and remove Package element

I do have several situations where I use the WixDifxAppExtension to integrate and deploy third-party drivers in my bundle by creating a MSI.  I find that I need to set Product/@Manufacture to the third-party name as defined in the driver's INF file or the WixDifxApp calls fail.  And I set the Package/@Manufacture to my company name (with a Package/@Comment indicating that my company created this MSI to redistribute the third-party driver).


So in general as long as there is a similar path to use WixDiffxAppExtension to redistribute a third-party driver I'm fine with a v4 consolidation of the Product and Package elements, but I think currently this distinction in the Manufacturing attributes is needed due to the WixDiffxAppExtension implementation.

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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of John Cooper <JoCooper at jackhenry.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 1:49:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIP: Deprecate and remove Package element

Roll it in to <Product> for v4.  Package doesn't do anything for me.

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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 12:40 PM
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Subject: [wix-devs] WIP: Deprecate and remove Package element

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This is the thread to discuss my WIP (current version at https://github.com/wixtoolset/web/blob/222d856c0afb645185b8b5977e7683656ae82897/root/documents/development/wips/5377-deprecate-and-remove-package-element.html.md). Sean had a comment already but I'll let him bring it up. Open issues are marked with "???" - basically, I'm not sure what to do with them, if they're still needed.

Comments welcome.

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