Re: [WiX-users] What does Light do?

2010-04-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 4/26/2010 10:53 AM, Nick Ramirez wrote: > I've looked through the source code for Light and I think I've generally got > a good idea about the order of things. I'm just not sure we've found all the > ways to optimize. > Difficult to say without really knowing your system. In general, botto

Re: [WiX-users] What does Light do?

2010-04-26 Thread Nick Ramirez
We're trying to make it faster. We're currently using a wixout file to get us halfway through the process. Yet, it still takes a while since we are localizing for eight languages. Our latest idea is to stop reusing the wixout in such a synchronous way. By that I mean that we use a batch file that

Re: [WiX-users] What does Light do?

2010-04-25 Thread Bob Arnson
On 4/22/2010 1:57 PM, Nick Ramirez wrote: > We'd like to optimize our calls to Light and any info about the order of > things would really help. > It would also be implementation-dependent and likely to change. What are you looking to optimize? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/

Re: [WiX-users] What does Light do?

2010-04-23 Thread Pally Sandher
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] What does Light do? Can anyone tell me more about the actions that Light does? For example, does linking happen before binding? When is the .wixout or .wixpdb file created? When are unreal tables used and is it okay to drop them with the -dut flag? We'

[WiX-users] What does Light do?

2010-04-22 Thread Nick Ramirez
Can anyone tell me more about the actions that Light does? For example, does linking happen before binding? When is the .wixout or .wixpdb file created? When are unreal tables used and is it okay to drop them with the -dut flag? We'd like to optimize our calls to Light and any info about the order