RFR: 8319457: Update jpackage to support WiX Toolset 4 on Windows
Alexander Matveev
almatvee at openjdk.org
Tue Jun 4 02:45:08 UTC 2024
On Mon, 20 May 2024 21:14:09 GMT, Alexey Semenyuk <asemenyuk at openjdk.org> wrote:
> Add support for WiX4 (and WiX5) in jpackage.
>
> jpackage supports WiX3, WiX4 and WiX5. It will pick WiX4/WiX5 if one of them is installed and there is WiX3 installed too. (Note: WiX4 and WiX5 are not supposed to be installed side-by-side, but if it happens, WiX5 will be preferred over WiX4).
>
> Custom WiX3 sources will be automatically converted to WiX4 format if WiX4/WiX5 is used. The converter provides:
>
> - full support of the conversion of WiX L10N (.wxl) files, i.e. full support of "http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization" to "http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxl" namespace conversion;
> - partial support of WiX source (.wxs) files, i.e. partial support of "http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" to "http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/v4/wxs" namespace conversion;
>
> The converter is a XSLT stylesheet. The default converter is `src/jdk.jpackage/windows/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/resources/wix3-to-wix4-conv.xsl`. It can be replaced with the custom converter by adding "wix-conv.xsl" file to the resource directory.
src/jdk.jpackage/windows/classes/jdk/jpackage/internal/WixTool.java line 51:
> 49: Candle3("candle", DottedVersion.lazy("3.0")),
> 50: Light3("light", DottedVersion.lazy("3.0")),
> 51: Wix4("wix", DottedVersion.lazy("4.0.4"));
Is there any reason to use "4.0.4" here? Latest released version is "4.0.5". Can we just put "4.0" similar to "3.0".
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19318#discussion_r1625259023
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