Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies between components

2011-11-08 Thread Steffen Henne
Thanks, I think this will fit when i get this working. I tried: But when I then only select the Symbols it still installs only the Symbols ComponentGroup. Any idea whats wrong? greetings Steffen 2011/11/8 Michael Stoll > AFAIK you cannot do that with ComponentGroups. > > I

Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies between components

2011-11-08 Thread Michael Stoll
AFAIK you cannot do that with ComponentGroups. If you like a flat structure you can do something like this: ... This will install the "Binaries"-Feature when Debug or Binaries is selected. It's like a dependency of "Debug" to "Binaries". Regards Michael Am 08.11.2011 12:39, schrieb

Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies between components

2011-11-08 Thread Steffen Henne
That perhaps explains the strange behavior of the DependencyExtension :D Any possibibilty then to set one ComponentGroup as optional? I'm thinking about having an ComponentGroup with Binaries and one with the Program Debug Databases. Then the Debug dbs will be kind of addition to the Binaries. An

Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies between components

2011-11-08 Thread Michael Stoll
AFAIK the DependencyExtension is about dependencies between installer packages. I'm solving component dependencies with groups. Like this: ... ... So I'm only referencing groups in the feature and thus can add any dependency like any other component to that group. Regards Michael

Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies between components

2011-11-08 Thread Steffen Henne
Thanks for your answer. I actually think it's not necessary but we want to try it out for the scenario the guy who creates our big main wxs file has no idea about the dependencies between all the projects and we can define them somerwhere else. I just found the DependencyExtension and tried to use

Re: [WiX-users] Dependencies between components

2011-11-05 Thread Blair Murri
If two components must be always be installed/removed together, I don't see why they can't be in all the same features. If one of the components depends on another but the dependency is not mutual, you could make a hidden feature that also contains the dependent component and use a custom actio