In article <162de7480911021842v75b9ecc1j99622cf647134...@mail.gmail.com>,
    "Wesley W. Terpstra" <wes...@terpstra.ca>  writes:

> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Richard <legal...@xmission.com> wrote:
> > In article <162de7480911020831o4b123747xc933d27b4fbf8...@mail.gmail.com>,
> > =A0 =A0"Wesley W. Terpstra" <wes...@terpstra.ca> =A0writes:
> >> [...] For such a big
> >> savings in download-time I think that's a reasonable trade-off.
> >
> > Have you been receiving complaints about download times?
> 
> Actually, yes.

Then its worth pursuing.

> As a footnote, I've found a way to radically improve the compression
> of both the 7zip'd msi and the windows compressed cab file. It seems
> that WiX puts files into the cabinet sorted by their 'Id' strings.
> Since some of the files are very similar or even identical (32-bit vs
> 64-bit headers), it helps a lot if these files appear one after the
> other in the cabinet file. I've switched my Id='xxx' strings to use
> the format Id='file.reversed-filename.path-hash'.

This is a good observation!
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