Re: [WiX-users] MSM compression?

2010-03-22 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/22/2010 10:53 AM, John Aldridge wrote: > so in this case the MSM /is/ the actual file, isn't it? Indeed, that makes a difference. Merge modules must use an embedded cabinet, per the MSI SDK. WiX doesn't offer explicit control over the compression level in authoring, but the code appears to

Re: [WiX-users] MSM compression?

2010-03-22 Thread John Aldridge
On 22/03/2010 14:36, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 3/22/2010 9:40 AM, John Aldridge wrote: >> It looks as if the MSM is internally compressed, because its size is >> less than that of the DLLs it contains. This has bad consequences when >> we try to build a patch for our application and the patch needs to

Re: [WiX-users] MSM compression?

2010-03-22 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/22/2010 9:40 AM, John Aldridge wrote: > It looks as if the MSM is internally compressed, because its size is > less than that of the DLLs it contains. This has bad consequences when > we try to build a patch for our application and the patch needs to > update the installed MSM: the patch comes

[WiX-users] MSM compression?

2010-03-22 Thread John Aldridge
As part of installing our application, we deliver a merge module (our application includes an API, and the MSM is to enable our customers to create a Visual Studio deployment project for an application of their own written against our API). It looks as if the MSM is internally compressed, becau