[issue24585] Windows installer does not detect existing installs

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower added the comment:

Doesn't touch anything significant outside the installer, so I just committed it. Feel free to read over the change and comment here if you want, but we unfortunately won't get complete testing of this until rc1.

I added some helpers for faking out version numbers, so if you want to try building the installer you can do:

tools\msi\build.bat -x86
move PCBuild\win32\en-us test350
msbuild tools\msi\bundle\snapshot.wixproj /p:OverrideVersion=3.5.1 /t:Rebuild
move PCBuild\win32\en-us test351

which will give you two installers with different versions (though the actual interpreter is unaffected). Or just hold out for the actual releases - I'll be testing it in the meantime.

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