Note: you probably don't need to do 1 if you do 2. You'll need a CustomAction to toast an entire directory tree. You can clean all files out of a set of directories using the RemoveFile and RemoveFolder elements. However, your trading off describing all of the files for custom code and a less robust installation. The Windows Installer install/uninstall code is very well tested (by this time) so using it without adding custom code is always ideal.
Personally, I would do work to describe all of the files to get the confidence that my install costing/install/uninstall/repair/upgrade would all work well. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Van Eaton Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:54 PM To: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Disk costing, directory deleting 1. Thanks. 2. I am not going to describe all of the objs, generated headers, binaries, pdbs, etc. I am just looking for a way to nuke the directory and tie that into a user option in the UI. JVE -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 3:10 PM To: Jason Van Eaton; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Disk costing, directory deleting 1. ReserveCost element. 2. If you describe all of the files in the MSI, then MSI will clean up properly. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Van Eaton Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 1:21 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Disk costing, directory deleting I need to accomplish 2 tasks and I am not seeing any obvious solutions (using 3.0.2420.0). 1. I am creating a source code install. I would like to prevent users from installing on drives that that do not have enough room to build the source code. So although the source itself only consumes 220MB, I would like to "reserve" 2GB. Is that possible? 2. When uninstalling, I would like to provide an option to delete the INSTALLDIR in its entirety (whether empty or not). How should I accomplish that? Thanks for your help. JVE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
