Odd setup.ini and version.ini content on Windows
Mike Kaganski
mikekaganski at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 15 10:29:22 UTC 2024
On 1/15/2024 2:41 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> As described in the commit message of
> <https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/a31f334d36b5735ba6fc8d0f89e834a73bdcc561%5E!/> "Windows MAR update issues with program/{setup,version}.ini":
>
> "At least on Windows, our MSI install sets differ from our archive
> install sets in that their program/setup.ini and program/version.ini
> files have differing content: For one, they have ProductCode,
> UpdateCode, and MsiProductVersion (the latter only in version.ini) lines
> that have empty values in archive install sets and non-empty values in
> MSI install sets.
Maybe I am wrong here, and confuse things - but I have some vague memory
that one of these (or some different?) values was used at startup time,
to check against the "last run version" in usermodifications, to
initiate things like extensions compatibility check.
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Best regards,
Mike Kaganski
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