Yan, This comes up from time to time and I want to stress that there is no universal best practice that states every file should be the keyfile of it's own component. 1:1 is the most common situation that you would want to do this but it is not universally true. The MSI SDK talks about this and I can speak from experience that I know of a number of situations where I would want to author in a non 1:1 fashion.
Defining Installer Components: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368269(v=vs.85).aspx Regards, Chris --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Yan Sklyarenko <yansklyarenko+...@gmail.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tue, March 22, 2011 2:07:53 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to create a single component in output wxs file for whole directory using heat heat.exe doesn't support this out of the box - it was designed to encourage the best practice, which is "one file - one component". However, you can apply an XSL transform to the heat output and change it the way you need. You can also take a look at the Paraffin tool ( http://www.wintellect.com/CS/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/10/21/wix-a-better-tallow-paraffin.aspx), created by John Robbins some time ago - it has a switch to support your scenario. However, I've never tried it myself. -- Yan On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Sanjay Rao <s...@noida.interrasystems.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I have a directory having thousand of files and directories in it. Since > these files/folders updated rarely in one version to another version, So > I just want to create minimum number of component for this directory to > make the installer faster. This is just an experiment to check whether > installer become faster or not after having a less number of components. > > Does anybody knows that how to create minimum number of components for > one directory using heat ? > > Regards, > Sanjay Rao > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
