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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Rob Mensching <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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/>

Some kind of linking comes in handy to avoid storing multiple physical
copies of files that don't change between versions.

Olaf