I can't begin to count how many developers and architects have told me that component order does matter because they broke the component rules and then witnessed the "right" file get installed and how it "isn't" and therefore the build/installer is broken. :(
---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 11:30 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Order of Execution Order of Components matters none. Order of actions is defined by the Sequences. On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:20 AM, George Fleming <gef...@microsoft.com>wrote: > Running Wix 3.7, I have a feature with several ComponentGroupRef's: > > <Feature Id="", Title="", Level="1"> > <ComponentGroupRef Id="one" /> > <ComponentGroupRef Id="two" /> > ... > <ComponentGroupRef Id="xxx" /> > <ComponentGroupRef Id="yyy" /> > </Feature> > > I need to "yyy" to execute after "xxx" because of a dependency (it needs > to wait for IIS to start). How do I do this? I know Wix > order-of-execution is unpredictable. And I know if I were doing via Custom > Actions, I could order them, but I would rather not do Custom Actions if I > don't have to. > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users