> 1. How do you manage updates to the "database" in source > control? Do people update the file before building or does > the build machine checkout/checkin automatically? If the > latter, what source control systems does it support... (you > can see where I'm going <smile/>)?
We use cvsnt as our source control system, and my build/release script does an update before building. The custom build task currently just generates a build warning if it's had to update the database, and that's my cue to commit the file back into CVS. There's probably nothing stopping me from making the commit automatic, but it means I can keep an eye on what is going on. > 2. How is this better than using auto-generated-stable Guids? It's probably not. I'm not sure heat had that functionality when I implemented what I have implemented, and I wasn't aware that auto-generated GUIDs were possible. It's worth noting that I only use this method for parts of the installer where there are collections of simple files that need installing, with no other resources. These files are changed by other people on the team, sometimes people who are not developers, and so it makes my life easy to harvest them. I've got it working well enough for our environment and the constraints we operate under; it may not work so well for others. For example, I also have build tasks that generate wxs fragments for VB6 COM controls, stripping out some of the needless stuff that VB puts in the registry, which is duplicated across all controls, again using a similar scheme to store GUID state. Regards, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
