[wix-devs] WIXBUG3704 - Allow access to persisted variables from related bundles

[Hoover, Jacob]

I was trying to find a happy medium.  As the registry isn't a "secure" location, I was envisioning that it would be limited use so the author could explicitly define what they wanted to share. Going from memory, I don't think my POC implementation stores in both locations.

Are you suggesting of eliminating local storage of variables and place them all in the registry?

I'll work on a WIP as soon as I can garner enough feedback to at least ensure I am not totally off base.

From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hall via wix-devs
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 6:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] WIXBUG3704 - Allow access to persisted variables from related bundles

I think it's a good idea to persist the variables in the registry. I think
there should be a single source of truth so I don't think they should also
be persisted to the state file.

I'm having trouble coming up with a use case for persisting a variable for
the bundle but not for related bundles. Why shouldn't all persisted
variables be "shared"?

Please write a WIP.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:14 AM Hoover, Jacob via wix-devs <
wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto:wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org>> wrote:

> https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/3704<https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/3704>
>
> I haven't done my searching yet, but this is related to some work I had
> done internally. My thought was instead of allowing access to persisted
> variables, to allow for "shared" variables which would be written to the
> registry. In addition to not needing to be concerned with format/version
> and/or invoking the other bundle to ask it for data, we could simply allow
> for shared variables to be accessed via the registry.
>
> I believe this was my rough in of the POC:
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/compare/develop...jchoover:WIXFEAT3704<https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix3/compare/develop...jchoover:WIXFEAT3704>
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Jacob
>
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