Well, “-?” is documentation. <smile/>
The tools are supposed to be documented in WiX.chm… although, I expect we’re
behind on that and I’d happily take bugs assigned to me to address.
From: Kelly Leahy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 09:50
To: Rob Mensching
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] wixout file format
Yep... I kinda forgot the smiley in my email :)
So where is the 'command lines and the tools to use' documentation located,
precisely?
Kelly
Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I know you’re being slightly flippant but truly the answer is, “Yes, the schema
is all documented. The command-lines and the tools to use are documented.”
I’m happy for people to say, “Hey, such-and-such isn’t documented… can I expect
it to remain constant supported and all that good stuff?” I’ll then go into
the tools and see if it is a purposeful feature or a side-effect that might
change in the future. The former is something I should document. The latter
is something you should not use.
In this case, the fact that .wixout files were once XML files was a
“side-effect” of some decisions made “at the beginning of time” (for WiX v2).
Later (in WiX v3), having “binary wixouts” (and .wixlibs but nobody has been
complaining about them <grin/>) provided us with some really nice features.
So, we changed it.
Thus far I have only had two organizations get huffy about that change,
Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Studio. Why? Because they wrote tools
that went in and dorked with the .wixout files as XML directly instead of using
other supported mechanisms in the WiX toolset for doing what they wanted to do.
Apparently, no one in Office told Justin (who, based on the gigantic signature
on the end of his email, appears to work in Microsoft Office) that the .wixout
files haven’t been XML files for about a year now. <smile/>
From: Kelly Leahy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 06:48
To: Rob Mensching
Cc: 'Adam Majer'; Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] wixout file format
Is anything in Wix 3.0 documented?
Sorry. I just couldn't resist.
Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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10/23/2007 03:11 PM
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Re: [WiX-users] wixout file format
Also, the .wixout format is not documented. We don't expect people to
really care about it or expect it to be one thing or another over time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 15:05
To: 'Adam Majer'
Cc: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] wixout file format
And it would be much bigger and slower to load, neither of which are
desirable (especially if your project is as large as Office).
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Majer
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 13:46
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] wixout file format
Peter Marcu wrote:
> The wixout is not a pure xml file in WiX 3.0. It has a cab at the
> beginning of it that contains embedded binary files.
Wouldn't it be possible to fix this such that it is a proper XML file?
The cab could be embedded in the XML (eg. base64) and the entire thing
would be much better, though not exactly perfect. At least it would work
with XML parsers.
- Adam
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