Re: [WiX-users] FILEVERSION vs. FileVersion vs.PRODUCTVERSION vs. ProductVersion

[Mike D. <mi...@di...>]

The answer appears to be, 'whatever MsiGetFileVersion returns'. As a
commenter on that thread said, a bit of experimentation will reveal what
that is.

I suspect it will be FILEVERSION, and the language it decides on will be the
first language block it finds in the version resource.

-- 
Mike Dimmick

-----Original Message-----
From: wix...@li...
[mailto:wix...@li...] On Behalf Of Kirill
Kovalenko
Sent: 19 October 2006 17:57
To: 'Rob Mensching'
Cc: wix...@li...
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] FILEVERSION vs. FileVersion vs.PRODUCTVERSIONvs.
ProductVersion

Hello Rob, 

Thanks for the prompt reply. 

Sorry for the confusion. I meant not MSI, but Win32 resource filelds and
their relationship with MSI.

FILEVERSION or PRODUCTVERSION are the standard fields of the VERSIONINFO
Win32 recource file. 
http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms726776.aspx

Sincerely yours,

Kirill Kovalenko
Product Manager
Softerra LLC
http://www.softerra.com
http://www.ldapadministrator.com

-----Original Message-----
From: wix...@li...
[mailto:wix...@li...] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:21 PM
To: Kirill Kovalenko; wix...@li...
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] FILEVERSION vs. FileVersion vs. PRODUCTVERSIONvs.
ProductVersion

AFAIK, there is no such thing as FILEVERSION or PRODUCTVERSION.  The
ProductVersion only comes into play for Upgrade scenarios.

There only "FileVersion" concept is the Version column in the File table.
All references to "file version" in the "File Versioning Rules" refers to
that Version column for the files that are being
installed/uninstalled/upgraded by the MSI and the actual file version
resource is used when the MSI has to compare against a file that is already
on disk.

WiX doesn't expose the Version column in the File table because it can be
auto-populated from your files and you can imagine how confused the Windows
Installer could get if you put the wrong data in the Version column.

-----Original Message-----
From: wix...@li...
[mailto:wix...@li...] On Behalf Of Kirill
Kovalenko
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:08 AM
To: wix...@li...
Subject: [WiX-users] FILEVERSION vs. FileVersion vs. PRODUCTVERSION vs.
ProductVersion

Hello,

I read MSI and Platform SDK but haven't found a clean answer for the
difference between FILEVERSION vs. FileVersion vs. PRODUCTVERSION vs.
ProductVersion.

A similar question was raised in the MSI newsgroup, but no exact answer was
provided:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.platformsdk.msi/browse_frm/t
hread/997708b0a2805cf7/11f526e51912fdf2

The real question behind is how Windows Installer obtains file version
information during files copying. The MSI SDK's "File Versioning Rules"
article does no clearly explains what is the "file version" and whether
product version fields are taken into consideration while computing file
version.

I'm going to share some components from an existing product with a new
product that have a different number and I wonder whether I can have
separate versioning for file versions and product versions?