This does look a little more like a usage question (wix-users list) than a
dev question.
Entire containers use a specific type of "archive format" (the source code
references both MSFT's cabinet and 7-zip, but only an implementation for
cabinet is provided (so far). It is up to the archive format implementation
to choose the compression method for individual files based on what it
supports and how much control it permits the calling code to exert control
over that selection. For example, according to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_(file_format), cabinet allows for three
compression methods: DEFLATE, Quantum, and LZX. However, the API used for
cabinet files does not allow control over which of those three methods are
used on any given file, as the archiver selects which method to use
automatically (AFAIK on a file-by-file basis).
Some work would need to be done to allow some sort of extension to provide
an alternate archive format. Alternately, if just the LZMA method used in a
7z implementation is desired the code is available in the public domain and
in theory could be added to the toolset and used.
-Blair
From: Sean Farrow [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 9:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WiX-devs] Replacing burn layers
Hi:
I am in the process of creating a few installations and ideally would like
to use burn to package the files in to an executable.
Sove of the files don't compress well in .cab files. Is it possible to alter
the compression code in burn to use a different compression scheme based on
the file extension?
Also I'm trying to write an unmanaged stdux, but I carn't see where to
create the equivalent of the applicationBarControl etc, the unmanaged stdux
just appears to create one window, that handles messages.
I appreciated documentation is in an early stage, if not present, but can
someone give me some pointers?
Cheers
Sean.
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