[wix-devs] 6210 - Burn engine should handle non-QWORD versions

[Rob Mensching]

> I'm talking about the engine version as a QWORD.

Got it. Agreed.


> Yes it will be successfully parsed, that's the whole point of this issue.

What would "@#$%^&*" be parsed to? The equivalent of "v0"?


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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Sean Hall via wix-devs
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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] 6210 - Burn engine should handle non-QWORD versions

>  use both dotted versions and semver for their new bundles

Yeah, I'm not talking about the bundle version. I'm talking about the engine version as a QWORD.
https://github.com/wixtoolset/burn/blob/6d763d9c86405644cc72530ad64978efd6ba5828/src/engine/EngineForApplication.cpp#L407

>  I didn't think "@#$%^&*" would be successfully parsed.

Yes it will be successfully parsed, that's the whole point of this issue.
Burn can't fail to parse a string as a version no matter how crazy it is.