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

[Brian Drennan]

Hi all,

My team is currently using service fabric, which doesn't perform any validation on the version strings of packages. We really value the ability to version without any validation of any monikers we come up with. Most of the time, we just use a "-alpha" or "-beta" suffix, but that actually fails certain parsing rules when compiling an assembly in .NET (it works for the informational version, but not the primary version).

My current org doesn't use WiX for anything (yet), but arbitrary strings are a thing we would value. I hope our use case helps with the decision making process. I'd be happy to jump on the next WiX Online Meeting to further discuss if anyone thinks there would be some benefit there.

Regards,

Brian
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From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf of Rob Mensching via wix-devs <wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>
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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] 6210 - Burn engine should handle non-QWORD versions

Very interesting.  "@#$%^&*" is not valid SemVer nor 4-dotted.

Should there be some indication when parsing that the parsed thing isn't at all recognized as a version?
Is there a use case for arbitrary strings to be treated as "v0-[arbitrarystring]" in version comparisons?


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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

It would be parsed to

major - 0
minor - 0
patch - 0
revision - 0
release labels - [] (empty array)
metadata - "@#$%^&*"

"v0" or "0" or "" are all parsed to

major - 0
minor - 0
patch - 0
revision - 0
release labels - [] (empty array)
metadata - "" (empty string)

"@#$%^&*" would be greater than "v0"

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