Okay, cool. Why is that better than being able to use the project files in
the WiX build the same way? (assuming we fix any instances of issue #2 I
listed previously)
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote:
> I can document it more fully but basically I created new default project
> files for wixproj, vcxproj and csproj and then put the files in them. The
> C++ was the hardest as I needed to copy across all the build settings. Once
> you have standard project files building is easy and the settings can all
> be overridden from an external build process rather than in the project
> file.****
>
> ** **
>
> Neil****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
> *Sent:* 18 February 2013 23:09
>
> *To:* Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX Code****
>
> ** **
>
> Okay, that's getting to the crux of the issue. What is missing or what did
> you add to make you so much faster outside of the WiX build process that
> made it worthwhile to do that work?****
>
> ****
>
> From my point of view, you should be able to get the same exact wins
> inside the WiX toolset without having to do the work to extract the code
> out of the WiX build process and create a new one.****
>
> ****
>
> What was different outside of the WiX toolset?****
>
> ****
>
> PS: if someone wants to go about getting the extension build to use the
> built files they'd be available in the SDK, that seems reasonable to me as
> long as it makes it easier to build the extensions, not harder. <smile/>**
> **
>
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>
> wrote:****
>
> I appreciate this wouldn’t be trivial to arrange but I believe the
> benefits would be worth it. I base this on the speed at which I have been
> able to develop the extended BA, spending time breaking it out of the WiX
> build has made it so much easier to work on.****
>
> ****
>
> Neil
>
>
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