Do you need to handle upgrades? If so, how are you going to handle file renames, deletions, etc?
I wrote my own utility (in C#) to rip through a directory and generate WiX source (similarly to heat.exe) except that it specifies FileSource differently so that I don't have to touch up the generated source (I wish heat had a similar feature). I'm using one component per file and letting candle generate the component guids. We run the utility on every build so the generated wix source is always "up-to-date". I haven't tested upgrade scenarios where a file gets renamed, moved to a different directory, deleted from the tree, etc. Every build generates a major upgrade so I'm hoping everything will get handled correctly by windows installer but I don't know enough to be certain. -- Edwin > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Sustrik [mailto:sust...@fastmq.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:16 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Very Simple Installer > > What about: > > 1. make zip by hand > 2. add the zip file as a single file into a wix project > 3. add a custom step that unzips the file > > Would that work? > > Martin > > Curtis Jewell wrote: > > And in my case, I'm doing the ripping using Perl instead of MSBuild. > > Works for me, at least. > > > > (Of course, the package I'm writing is customized FOR packaging Perl > and > > perl modules on 32-bit Windows, but a lot of the code should still be > > usable, and I may very well generalize it later! AND, it's > GPL/Artistic > > licensed like most Perl code. The repository is at > > http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/Perl-Dist-WiX/ if anybody wants to take > a > > look. Head down into the lib directory for the module source.) > > > > --Curtis > > > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:33:22 -0800, "David Reed" > > <david.r...@microsoft.com> said: > >> I'm pretty sure that there used to be, Martin, but I don't see it in > v3; > >> IIRC, wildcard support was explicitly dropped "by design". > >> > >> If you figure it out and I missed it somewhere, LMK! We wrote a > custom > >> MSBuild task to rip through a directory tree and write out include > files > >> for WiX to do this. It's on out CodePlex now in our root project, > but > >> that reminds me that I've been meaning to contribute it to the > MSBuild > >> community tasks project... > >> > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Martin Sustrik [mailto:sust...@fastmq.com] > >> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:25 > >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >> Subject: [WiX-users] Very Simple Installer > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a directory tree I want to install at a user-specified > location. > >> It's as simple as that... however, I don't want to manage large xml > >> definition file with an entry for each file to be packaged. > >> > >> Is there a way to do that with WiX? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> Martin > > -- > > Curtis Jewell > > swords...@csjewell.fastmail.us > > > > %DCL-E-MEM-BAD, bad memory > > -VMS-F-PDGERS, pudding between the ears > > > > [I use PC-Alpine, which deliberately does not display colors and > pictures in HTML mail] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > > software. 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