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[Rob Mensching <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed.

I've also mentioned to Garrett a couple times that it would be *awesome* if
all (most?) custom actions were written generally and contributed to the WiX
toolset so that others can take advantage of the addition even if they
aren't related to CoApp. For example, creating/deleting soft links are not
supported by the Windows Installer nor WiX extension today but it would be
very cool if it did. Hey, do you think CoApp will need soft link support
during install?

I can dream, I suppose. <smile/>

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Rob Mensching <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Note that the game explorer
> install/uninstall/repair/upgrade/patch/rollback
> > in the WiX toolset is actually implemented by a Custom Action. We call it
> > one of the "WiX Standard Custom Actions".
> > It's hard to write Custom Actions correctly and people often use them
> > improperly which leads to Garrett's comment.
>
> I think Garett wants to avoid packages creating their own Custom Actions.
> Our tools could generate the custom actions with the packages asking for
> them.
>
> Olaf
>
>