> On 28-Oct-13 22:05, Tunney, Stephen wrote: >> Ok, good to know. I have thousands of components though spread across a >> dozen features. Those features are shared amongst 8 products :)
Stephen, how did you make out with your patch creation using this Pure-Wix method? We are just looking into the patching methods and I have done examples of both Patch Creation Properties as well as Pure Wix and I have gotten them working, but as I was documenting my findings I found the reference to MELT and therefore that throw a bit of a wench into things as my tests were all based on strict paths. After reading about if the build system moves thing around then I figured that we would then have issues. Anyways slightly off topic I wanted to talk about... We also have thousands of components in multiple fragments and wixlibs and therefore would not want to create a patch .wxs file that has to list every ComponentRef under the PatchFamily element. Now with my tests I created V1.0 with 5 files and then I updated all but 1 file for V1.1. In my patch .wxs file I only added a ComponentRef to one of the components. I then generated the patch and installed V1.0. I then ran the patch .msp and all the files were correctly updated except for the one that did not change. So is this expected behavior or what? I just need to know if I use this method what ComponentRef are needed. Since I only had one file with component does it mean that if I have multiple component fragment files that I have to at least reference one component from each fragment to make this work?? If so then I would think that working with PatchCreation and extracted .msi files would be less complicated... Thanks.. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Purely-WiX-patching-and-FeatureRef-tp7590049p7590407.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
