I did lots of work was done in WiX v3.6 to get this scenario fixed to work
as you describe at the end. What version of the WiX toolset are you using?
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Abbott, Brian (GE Energy)
brian.abb...@ge.com wrote:
I'm trying to use wix to build an installer for distributing and setting
up an automated test environment. This is really made up of 3 parts, the
application code (which is installed via its own installer), the test code
which I'm using wix for, and some databases that contain the data used
during test. The Databases are where I run into trouble, I was hoping to
package them up in my installer I've built for the test code but it takes
forever to put them into a cab file, like an hour for the 500Mb of database
files. This is really unacceptable to me because I want to use this as
part of an automated build process - thus began my search for an
optimization.
First I found the -cc and -reusecab options and tried them but because the
test code files are changing with each compile the cab gets rebuilt.
Next I tried using -reusecab but separating out the Database files into a
separate cab, still it gets rebuilt.
So my question boils down to this:
Should -reusecab regenerate 'all' the cab files if any single one of them
is out of date, or should it be regenerating only the out of date cab files?
Is there a better solution?
I think ideally if your wix project generates multiple cab files then
-reusecab should check each one individually and only rebuild those that
don't match the current files.
Brian Abbott
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