Squirrel installers race for SquirrelTemp resulting in bad installations about squirrel.windows

[anaisbetts]

A quick review of the code that I wrote ~9 years ago seems to indicate that this is not super easy because of how early in the process we are, though the "randomly generated" strategy might work. I'm.....not sure why I didn't do that in the first place actually! Probably because I was trying to make the C++ section of this code As Small As Possible

The other places we use SquirrelTemp during the update process, we actually already use the "generate a unique empty subdirectory" strategy

[anaisbetts]

While this is still a bug, MS Teams uses a forked, private copy of Squirrel that has several known bugs (some of which were self-inflicted) and we can do nothing to fix them

[riverar]

Interesting. Would the proposed silos at least shield the community from Teams and other apps using outdated Squirrel code? Or is this a set of unrelated issues?

[anaisbetts]

@robmen ^^ a Good Idea, this should fix some of the issues that people have around machine-wide installers stepping on each other

[robmen]

Yeah. I'm finally getting to the end of my WiX v4 saga and should finally have some mental energy for Squirrel.