MAKEMSI quickly and reliably creates MSI files in a non-programmatic way
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No Component FILE Path query

Lack of major queries such as the directory for a component, for example currently there is no 100% reliable way to determine where a file is located (other than recording all this detail yourself). For example a file being installed by a component with a registry keypath.

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