On 3/22/2010 9:40 AM, John Aldridge wrote: > It looks as if the MSM is internally compressed, because its size is > less than that of the DLLs it contains. This has bad consequences when > we try to build a patch for our application and the patch needs to > update the installed MSM: the patch comes out very large, presumably > because compressed files don't diff well. >
Patches are generated against the actual files, not the cabinets they're stored in. Unless you're using delta patches, .msps contain updated files in their entirety. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
