[wix-devs] 5222 - Burn's related/dependent bundle actions should be opt-in

[Bob Arnson]

Normally I'm the one suggesting stuff like that...

We need the concept for upgrades so most of the functionality has to exist. Detect-only related bundles are trivial. That leaves add-on bundles and patch bundles. The implementation is mostly just a few detection and state comparisons; it's not complex. There's definitely some vestigial code in there, e.g., supporting old-old bundle registration. We could clean it up if we were willing to break compatibility with v3.x related bundles or keep it as v3.x>7.

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That's not the answer I wanted, but it was what I expected. Given that there's no documentation, how many people are actually using related bundles (aside from upgrades)? What if we just... pulled them from v4?
Since I don't think anyone is really able to maintain them today and there's quite a few bugs on them.

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 5:31 PM Bob Arnson <bob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> There are specs (or were) but they never made it outside zip code 98052.
> Of course, there's no guarantee they accurate reflect the current 
> state of Burn, so retro-speccing from the code is probably necessary anyway.
>
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> should be opt-in
>
> For https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5222, does anyone 
> already have the list of magic stuff that is happening today? Or is 
> there existing documentation somewhere about related bundles so I can 
> get an idea of how related bundles are expected to interact with each 
> other? Is there even anybody with the knowledge to be able to create 
> such documentation or is someone going to have to reverse engineer the 
> code to write the documentation?
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