Property files and property names and duplicate properties.

[Cantor, Scott]

> It is very hard to get sensible warning up to the user during installs, particularly
> windows users.

Same problem with RPM, it's common to a lot of this stuff, you just don't have the ability to fail installs easily. I imagine the path of least resistance for something this rare is just create a log of problems, have a rule for which value we take, and move on.

> I think that VBScript will be very brittle, but maybe that is something to look at.

It probably wouldn't be that bad to just have to scan for some strings in a file, I suppose.

> But I also wonder whether - in the longer term - there might be a way to call
> through MSI into java and back.  We'd still have the DLLs but they could be
> written once and not change much since all they did was bridge in and out of
> java.  The work could be done in java, using our full environment.

That doesn't appeal to me.

-- Scott