Yeah, the heat project harvester was non-functional the last time I tried it (about 3-4 drops ago)/ It just throws an exception every time. If I get some spare time, I'll poke around and see what I can find.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's all true. However, IIRC, heat does have an MSBuild Task that can > "harvest projects". I'm not sure how well it works right now but I know > that there are some manual steps to get it wired in to begin with. Anyway, > I think that there is a point in the future where Votive could automagically > manage the outputs from projects and create Components for you. The VS > project system provides extra metadata that the raw "just harvest this > directory and figure everything out for me" doesn't provide. > > Unfortunately, from what I've seen, adding features to Votive takes > significant effort due to the weight of the VS project system. > > Anyway, the answer is it isn't automagic for you today but there is hope > for the future inside Votive... but that doesn't help you much right now. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Karper > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 08:56 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dependency Management > > This is a source of lots of hot discussion on the list right now. There is > nothing that can automatically manage things for you the way you would be > used to with Visual Studio. The Windows Installer is a mighty finicky > beasty, and adhering to all of it's rules makes development such a thing a > very difficult task. > > The tool "heat.exe" in WiX can do an initial harvest for you, but at last > check for me, the project harvesting wasn't working. You would need to > just > harvest files from the output directory. > > >From that point on, the onus would be on development staff to maintain the > .wxs file along with the code. > > At least, that's the current recommended workflow AFAIK. Welcome to the > list! > > Chris > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Steve Wagner < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Apologies if this has been asked and answered a zillion times already, I > am > > fairly new to WiX and very new to the list :) > > > > Using the Visual Studio deployment projects one is able to assign the > > output of a project or projects to the installer project and that has the > > effect of having the IDE manage all the dependencies. Is there a similar > > mechanism when using WiX? Or would we need to manually manage the > > dependencies in the xml files? > > > > Thanks for any information / resources you can offer! > > > > > > Steve Wagner | Senior Software Design Engineer | > > Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group (APS) > > Office 206-816-8440 | Fax 425-936-7329 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > > advertising.microsoft.com > > > > > > P please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
