Hello all, Ok, I finally have Pure WiX Patching working on my projects. I have a small issue though.
Melting all of our "RTM" products takes about 35 minutes to complete. What I have found is that if I zip up this collection of goodies and stick it on the network share ONCE, I can copy it down and I was trying to re-use that melted output (out folder + out pdb) for the pyro step. But pyro complains that it cannot find the binaries in a path in the wixpdb. The issue here really is that I'm running Jenkins in a cluster, and each node has a workspace root with a randomized piece, thanks to the perforce plugin. Not only that, some of the "working" drives have different drive letters, further complicating the issue. This last point could be fixed by homogenizing the cluster but that's a lot of work. For now, I'm simply melting the RTM installers every time, but this seems to be a massive waste of disk && CPU I/O. My unzipping step for all of our installers takes about 11 minutes. So the unzip process is MUCH faster. My feature request at the end of the day is this: Can melt simply "rebase" the wixpdb if I were to point it to an already existing melt output directory? I basically don't want to have melt re-output everything to the -x argument again. Nothing on the help syntax for 3.7 indicates a way of doing this. I have tried omitting the -x argument but it still takes 35 minutes to do the work. Stephen Tunney Nuance Communications, Inc. Solutions Architect, Imaging Division Waterloo, Ontario, Canada stephen.tun...@nuance.com<mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com> 519-880-7463 Office NUANCE.COM The experience speaks for itself (tm) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
