On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Pally Sandher <[email protected]> wrote: > Try using "mszip" instead of "high" for compression on your media tag & > see if that changes the size of the cab file.
It does. It becomes 99MB, i.e. bigger. > If you want your > files be installed without any extra work you're going to have to use > the CAB format. I thought it understood that I was willing to put in some work. :) > My suggestion would be to build your MSI with the files "uncompressed" > then compress them yourself using 7zip or whatever. You can then use a > bootstrapper to uncompress your files before running the MSI to install > it. Seems like a hell of a lot of work though for not a huge payoff & > there are probably better ways to achieve the result, that was just off > the top of my head. Yes, I'd tried this already this morning. I ended up with a 35MB installer when using a self-extracting 7zip archive of the uncompressed msi. The down-side is that it dumps the uncompressed msi into the users temporary folder before the installation begins, doubling the free space required to perform an install. For such a big savings in download-time I think that's a reasonable trade-off. It was at most 2 hours of fiddling, so not that much work. Of course 35MB still isn't 27MB, but it's enough better than 77MB that I'm happy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
