I have looked at WixStdBA, and I do believe is not accounting for CA progress
updates would cause overlap in the overall progress. I specifically remember
seeing comments in wiutil.cpp:
// HACK!!! this is a hack courtesy of the Windows Installer team.
It seems the script planning phase
// is always off by "about 50". So we'll toss an extra 50 ticks on
so that the standard progress
// doesn't go over 100%. If there are any custom actions, they may
blow the total so we'll call this
// "close" and deal with the rest.
The more packages you install and the more custom actions you run would
probably extend the variance.
In the end, if you have multiple MSI payloads you could try reducing one of
them at a time to see which is the most offending, and from there look to see
how many custom actions are being run.
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 5:12 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ExePackage Progress
Thanks for that I think you might be right, when I upgrade I typically on
install 2 large MSIs and as you say they do appear to overrun. I'll have a look
at the code too and see if I can spot the issue.
Neil
>I can't help you with it, but I (1) can confirm the behaviour and (2)
>add that it has nothing to do with ExePackages specifically or a mix of
>types. I have a bundle of all MSIPackages and it does exactly the same
>thing there. In fact, as the number of packages in the bundle
>increases, the larger the apparent error in the progress calculation
>is. I believe it is just a bug in the StdBa. I've been meaning to go
>and hunt it down but haven't had the time.
>
>Cheers.
>
>On 12-11-14 03:03 PM, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
>> Is anyone able to help with this?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 07 November 2012 22:20
>> To: General toolset. ([email protected])
>> Subject: [WiX-users] ExePackage Progress
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how the burn progress bar works for ExePackages? I
>>have a bundle with several Exe packages (one of which is SQL Express)
>>and a couple of MSI packages and the progress bar gets to 100% way
>>before the install has completed. On an upgrade where only the MSIs
>>are being installed it seems to be ok so my guess is that I have to
>>manually set the InstallSIze for the ExePackages but I am not sure to
>>what. Is it the size of the install or the size of the files that are
>>installed or something else?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Neil
>> Neil Sleightholm
>> X2 Systems Limited
>>
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