Re: [WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions?

2010-10-15 Thread Jean-Charles Meyrignac
@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : Re: [WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions? Chris, John, Thanks for the suggestions. I tried a vm with Server 2008 as a base OS (instead of 2003) and it seems to help considerably. I did a couple of trials and the set of merge modules took only 10+ minutes. The 2003 based vm

Re: [WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions?

2010-10-12 Thread John Bergman
, October 08, 2010 2:17 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions? I haven't spent a huge amount of time on this topic because we are generally happy with our build time,  but I can imagine merge modules are disk i/o intensive

Re: [WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions?

2010-10-12 Thread bpackard
Chris, John, Thanks for the suggestions. I tried a vm with Server 2008 as a base OS (instead of 2003) and it seems to help considerably. I did a couple of trials and the set of merge modules took only 10+ minutes. The 2003 based vm takes ~ 90 minutes. The real hardware (with 2003) takes about

[WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions?

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Packard
I have recently migrated from Wise to WiX. I have approximately 150 merge modules (at some point in the future I may be able to implement libs instead of merge modules, but for now .) and several installs that include some subset of the merge modules. I have implemented a VS solution for all the

Re: [WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions?

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Painter
, October 8, 2010 1:26:18 PM Subject: [WiX-users] Build speed, suggestions? I have recently migrated from Wise to WiX. I have approximately 150 merge modules (at some point in the future I may be able to implement libs instead of merge modules, but for now .) and several installs that include some