Two other options. 1. in your wxs files with your component declarations, put your components in <DirectoryRef> tags. Those tags will reference the Directory elements in your hierarchy. You will need to reference something in your fragments from the product so that they get included, however.
2. in your WiX v3 wxs files with your component declarations, add Directory attributes to your components. Those attributes will reference the Directory elements in your hierarchy. You will need to reference something in your fragments from the product so that they get included, however. The easiest way to reference your fragments is to include and populate one or more <ComponentGroup> elements in your wxs files containing your component declarations, and add <ComponentGroupRef> elements inside either your <Product> element or one of your <Feature> elements. -----Original Message----- From: JK E-Lists [mailto:jkli...@ifm-services.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 6:28 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How should I approach modularization? I'm a total WiX noob, so please bear with me here. :) I have a very large project that I'm writing an installer for. It has 2-3 scores of assemblies. The component list for the project is massive and unwieldy. I want to break this up and group the component declarations according to functionality. How does one typically approach this? I can't see how to create fragments with the component declarations because they apparently have to be in the <Directory> hierarchy. The only thing I can figure out is to use include files, such as <Directory ... <Directory ... <?include "foo.wxi"> ... Is this an appropriate way to manage the components, or is there something I'm not grokking? Thanks a lot, jk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
