Look at the Wix help regarding the "heat" tool. That will do the tedious initial script generation for you. Then you can tweak it by hand to maintain the diffs in future versions.
If you're not asking for a Wix-based solution then the Wix mailing list isn't really the place to be asking. The cab format is documented on the msdn at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb417343.aspx I dont see how that's any different from doing it with a zip though. -----Original Message----- From: James Green [mailto:jgr...@mango-solutions.com] Sent: 16 January 2012 14:48 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File Hi Peter, Not sure I understand. I already have a "default" cab file for our application declared like: <Media Id="1" Cabinet="app.cab" EmbedCab="yes" CompressionLevel="high" /> This currently contains all the application files for our file defined by hand inside Component declarations within the script. The problem I'm trying to solve is that I have another 'sub app' that will be installed with our application in the form of a set of files the problem is there are actually over 2000 files and 650+ directories and I really don't want to type that lot in (nor maintain it ...) so I was originally looking at including a zip and running an unzip during the install process. Seeing how problematic that is I started looking at using a cab file. Can a cab maintain the original directory structure automatically on decompressing? Cheers, James -----Original Message----- From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: 16 January 2012 14:20 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Cab File Add Compressed="yes" to the package element and EmbedCab="yes" Cabinet="Product.cab" to the media element of your installer and it will compress the files into a cabinet inside it. -----Original Message----- From: James Green [mailto:jgr...@mango-solutions.com] Sent: 16 January 2012 14:14 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Cab File Hi All, I have a large set of files to distribute with our installer (1100 files) and I was hoping to be able to do this with a zip file but that doesn't seem possible (nor a good idea) so I was wondering if it was possible to use a cab file instead? I'm wondering if the Cab will also be able to maintain the directory structure? Regards, James LEGAL NOTICE This message is intended for the use of the named recipient(s) only and may contain confidential and / or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete this message. 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