Re: [WiX-users] Future of Votive?

2007-06-10 Thread Jared Ashman

I don't think there's a switch in there currently to do relative paths.
Typically that's when I switch to search replace.  Heat's not meant to do
all your work for you, just give a solid base and decrease the amount of
initial setup time.

As to documentation on the -gg switch, I found out about -gg from this
mailing list a few months ago, there are a few other switches that are
undocumented.  I think someone said to basically go and read the source to
find them if you're interested.  Or a search through the archives may turn
some information up.

On 6/9/07, Christopher Painter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Is there a switch to tell it to use Relative Paths for the Source
Attribute or is that search and replace time?

Btw, -gg isn't documented when you say heat /?   Where is that documented?



*Jared Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED]* wrote:

Not sure about the Votive information, but if you pass -gg to heat as an
option it will generate guids for you instead of inserting the
PUT-GUID-HERE message.

On 6/8/07, Christopher Painter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I've been playing with Votive and I really like the way it plugs into VS
 and uses MSBuild.  My installs are primarily InstallShield based, and they
 will remain that way, but I would like to break some of the xcopy type logic
 out into seperate merge modules and let developers maintain them.

 My developers looked at Votive and basically said that they have no
 intention of entering raw xml to maintaing the dir/file trees associated
 with these merge modules.

 Will Votive ever have a Right Click | View Designer feature?   The
 perfect tool for me would take the VS features the Votive already has and
 give a vey simple drag and drop approach to directory structure creation
 similar to the way VDPROJ does it.

 The tool would need to automaically generate relative path file links
 and be very careful to not let developers do stupid things.  We are trying
 to support minor upgrades so features like `deprecate file`  to cause
 transitive style puncturing of components would be really good.

 I tried playing with heat but my developer don't want to have to use the
 command line and they want to be able to easily add and remove from the tree
 as needed.

 Eitherway I have a question about heat I notice that it sets
 components to Guid=PUT-GUID-HERE and uses absolute paths instead of
 relative paths in the Source attribute.   When you import a large directory
 structure, whats the easiest way to update those?  It seems very annonying
 to have to go through hundreds of these to get an WXS file that will
 properly work.

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Re: [WiX-users] Future of Votive?

2007-06-10 Thread Jared Ashman

Now that's cool.  Thanks for the tip!

On 6/10/07, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Jared Ashman wrote:
 I don't think there's a switch in there currently to do relative
 paths.  Typically that's when I switch to search replace.

You can also omit the Source attribute entirely, if the file is in the
directory indicated by the Directory element hierarchy and has the same
name. The binder can use the -b switch to Light to determine where to
start looking for files.

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Re: [WiX-users] Future of Votive?

2007-06-08 Thread Jared Ashman

Not sure about the Votive information, but if you pass -gg to heat as an
option it will generate guids for you instead of inserting the
PUT-GUID-HERE message.

On 6/8/07, Christopher Painter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


I've been playing with Votive and I really like the way it plugs into VS
and uses MSBuild.  My installs are primarily InstallShield based, and they
will remain that way, but I would like to break some of the xcopy type logic
out into seperate merge modules and let developers maintain them.

My developers looked at Votive and basically said that they have no
intention of entering raw xml to maintaing the dir/file trees associated
with these merge modules.

Will Votive ever have a Right Click | View Designer feature?   The perfect
tool for me would take the VS features the Votive already has and give a vey
simple drag and drop approach to directory structure creation similar to the
way VDPROJ does it.

The tool would need to automaically generate relative path file links and
be very careful to not let developers do stupid things.  We are trying to
support minor upgrades so features like `deprecate file`  to cause
transitive style puncturing of components would be really good.

I tried playing with heat but my developer don't want to have to use the
command line and they want to be able to easily add and remove from the tree
as needed.

Eitherway I have a question about heat I notice that it sets
components to Guid=PUT-GUID-HERE and uses absolute paths instead of
relative paths in the Source attribute.   When you import a large directory
structure, whats the easiest way to update those?  It seems very annonying
to have to go through hundreds of these to get an WXS file that will
properly work.


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