There's no real good answer to the question right now other than to follow the pattern of the existing harvesters and heat extensions. Please note that heat is built up in layers, so harvesters operate independently of the heat extension architecture - this design should allow non-heat apps such as ClickThrough to take advantage of any harvetser functionality (so we could eventually have a very UI-rich heat-like experience).
To begin, you could just take a look at existing heat stuff (its all mostly in WixUtilExtension) to get an idea of how it all works together - its actually pretty simple (hopefully). As always, you can always ask questions here for any issues you encounter. Derek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Tyler Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:46 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] heat help with harvester arguments-filteringdirectories and files Cool, that makes sense. I gather that from reading your announcment for heat on your blog post. This whole heat thing is very creative. I like this because I am currently working with Microsfot Speech Server and it seems like I could make a heat plugin for harvesting a VS solution and create an install that could work with Speech Server. Now the question I have is, "How do you create heat plugin (harvester?)" Thanks for your help! Brandon -----Original Message----- From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 2:15 PM To: Brandon Tyler; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] heat help with harvester arguments -filteringdirectories and files Ah yes - this is exactly the kind of information I was hoping to get! Filters would certainly solve this issue, but I think a better solution would be to create specialized heat plugins to understand project files so that you can use that data to drive exactly which files need to be grabbed. This frees you from the details of having to know which files need to be filtered because then it will just grab known targets. Derek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Tyler Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:55 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] heat help with harvester arguments -filteringdirectories and files You bet Derek! Thanks for the reply. Well, It was just laziness on my part I just ran heat on my entire solution and now I am going through and deleting all the unwanted files. I am trying to create an install for my actuall Visual Studio source tree. Heat gave me all the debug and .obj files, Resharper subdirectories, and my subversion subdirectories. It is kind of a pain to go and delete them in the .wxs file because there are the decleration of the directories and there are references. Sounds like the best way is to make a copy of my directory. Get it looking like the way I want it, then run heat. I was thinking though it would be cool to create filters because then I could have a command line template for ASP.NET web projects where I include all the .aspx and .dll but not the .obj or .cs files. Just thoughts. Thanks! Brandon -----Original Message----- From: Derek Cicerone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 1:50 PM To: Brandon Tyler; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] heat help with harvester arguments - filteringdirectories and files Heat is still the baby of the WiX toolset so its got plenty of missing features (like proper usage support). The help syntax you used below isn't implemented yet (sorry). I meant to add that in but I became very busy right after I introduced heat and haven't been able to get back to it. Regarding the idea of filtering directories and files - what would the goal of that be? The intention of heat is to point at an installed program installed to a location like c:\Program Files\MyApp and just grab all the files under MyApp (kinda like Clickthrough but via the command line). Can you give some practical examples of how the filtering options would be used and what specific scenarios should be supported? This will give a much better idea of how this functionality should actually work. Thanks, Derek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Tyler Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:40 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] heat help with harvester arguments - filteringdirectories and files When you type heat -? It says: usage: heat.exe harvestType <harvester arguments> -out sourceFile.wxs Supported harvesting types (use "heat.exe <type> -?" for more info): dir harvest a directory file harvest a file website harvest an IIS web site But when I type: heat.exe dir -? It just gives the same information again with no further explaination of dir. I have searched the newsgroups looking for a more detailed explaination of heat but have not found that yet. Maybe just a little early in the development I guess. The question I have is there a way to filter directories? What about file extensions? Like do this dir and not this dir or grab these files but not these files? Just wondering. Great job with heat, very cool. For more information see: http://wix.sourceforge.net -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:08 AM To: 'Thomas Hecker'; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] harvest several directories at once Definitely a feature request. Of course, you should be able to just harvest each directory to create a separate fragment then tie them together using the .wxs file with your Product. That probably works out better anyway. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Hecker Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 6:59 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] harvest several directories at once Hi, is there a way to let heat (v3) harvest several directories at once? 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