Hi Brian, Thanks for the reply. I fully get the difficulty of doing dynamic creation, that's why I think having a zip file in there would work in this situation, but all the conversations about wix & zip files seem pretty negative, hence why I thought I'd ask.
Yes, I'm using wix 2.0 -> I don't want to move to 3.0 since it's not fully GA yet (i know it's getting close but until it is, our product needs completely stable line and we don't need any new features). Thanks. Brian Rogers wrote: > > Hey, > > First, I just want to re-iterate the difficulty in doing dynamic creation > of > WIX source files (wxs). See what Bob Arnson had to say ( > http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/30/paying-for-upgrades/). > > Second, it looks like you are using WIX 2.0 as you mentioned tallow.exe. > In > WIX 3.0 this has been replaced by heat.exe. You may want to look into > moving > to the newer version of WIX. > > Hope that helps, > > Brian Rogers > "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me > http://icumove.spaces.live.com > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Tabmow <tabmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> I'm new to wix, and have looked at the tutorial at tramonta and >> searched >> around various places, but the answer to this isn't immediately obvious >> to >> me, so I was hoping someone could help shed some light on it. >> >> Our installer will be installing 3 large directories. Two of them are >> completely static 3rd party stuff that will not change at all for the >> release. However, the third directory is our main product build output, >> so >> that changes weekly. My question is: how do people deal with >> situations >> like this? I've looked at tallow & paraffin, and looks like I can use >> them >> (paraffin looks very nice) to build up my lists for inclusion in wxs file >> which will work perfect for 2 of the 3 directories & files. However, >> the >> third directory will change every week and there could be new files, >> files >> deleted, new directories, etc. Since all the stuff on tallow/paraffin i >> could see does not recommend re-running them on every build (so as not to >> have all new GUIDs and break component rules), I could run paraffin once >> and >> then every other build of my installer i could just do a paraffin >> -update... >> But then if new files get added one week, the next week -update would >> give >> them a different GUID unless I had some way of knowing when the new files >> were changed and to save that change. Asking designers to inform us of >> file additions/removals is not feasible - ~100 designers. >> >> So for that one directory that *could* change frequently, I could just >> store >> it as a zip file (this is what gets created by as a build artifact >> anyway) >> in the MSI and unzip it, couldn't I? Although lots of responses towards >> people asking questions about using Wix to handle zip files are very >> negative towards using zip files... so how are people handling situations >> like this? I would have assumed this was a common problem? >> >> I hope my point/question makes some sense. I would appreciate any >> help/suggestions/comments anyone has. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://n2.nabble.com/Question-about-including-large-number-of-%22modified%22-files...-tp2385558p2385558.html >> Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, >> CA >> -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the >> Enterprise >> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source >> participation >> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: >> SFAD >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, > CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: > SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Question-about-including-large-number-of-%22modified%22-files...-tp2385558p2386018.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
