jpackage Windows Wix v4

[Michael Hall]

> On Sep 13, 2023, at 2:21 PM, Alexey Semenyuk <alexey.semenyuk at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> jpoackage requires at least Wix v3.0. If it doesn't recognize Wix4, it is a bug.
> 
> - Alexey
> 
> On 9/12/2023 6:50 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
>> Curiosity. I was setting up a new Windows 10 VirtualBox image to do jpackage. It told me I needed Wix. First I needed dotnet to install wix. I then got a Wix v4. jpackage told me I needed candle.exe and light.exe from v3. I installed v3 but haven’t had a chance to try it.
>> 
>> However, if v4 isn’t backward compatible with v3 how will jpackage continue to work with this? Or did I miss something in my v4 install?
> 

Wix 4 looks pretty different was my concern. The dotnet install put into my user directory in a .dotnet directory. .dotnet\tool\wix or something pretty close to that. I had to add that to path. There didn’t appear to be any accompanying candle or light exe’s that jpackage seemed to expect. Assuming you are going to sometime have to support Wix v4 it might be worth looking at.