Hey Bob,
I've only just got around to having another look at this. I have grouped
features now sadly there is still a mystery that needs some detective
work. I have now set all the features I install to "expand" so I could
see where the space was going. I notice that the disk usage dialog lists
a required space of twice that of the files we need to install. I was
wondering if the use of merge modules could be contributing to this, if
maybe the size calculation doesn't go that deep for feature. I also
noticed recently that after installing and uninstalling some disk space
had disappeared. After some investigation I found it was in the
softwareDistribution directory in my windows system, and the system
volume information.. relating to restore points I think. Is it possible
the disk usage dialog is taking this into account aswell?
All my Love
Simon
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:21:43 -0800
From: Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Disk usage
To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset."
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Simon Topley wrote:
> I'm sure this is old ground but we have many features in our installer
> that are hidden, so when users are installing they see the disk usage
> for our one feature that isn't hidden and notice that the size is very
> small. Is there some sort of hack to trick the installer into sizing
up
> every feature into one feature. Like a top level feature that includes
> all others?
>
You can nest all features under a single parent Feature but not
"redirect" the costs of hidden features elsewhere (i.e., to another
hidden feature).
The WiX solution is to not use features for grouping shared/mandatory
components: Use ComponentGroups instead.
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