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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