Feature Requests item #1242410, was opened at 2005-07-21 19:15
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: koffeinkick (koffeinkick)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Mechanism for localization of entire components
Initial Comment:
Some components can get quite big and include lots of
information, such as <Class>, <TypeLib>, <AppId>,
some registry keys and files.
Assuming that this component has to be localized, a
product that is be shipped in several languages will have
several components that each install the same "thing",
but in a different directory and with a different
component guid.
In WiX, these components all have to be defined
separately in their own <Component> declaration, giving
lots of duplicated information. A (non-localized) change
in the component then requires it to be changed in all
these places.
It would be nice to be able to localize things like the
guid for the component, source path for files, qualifier
value (for qualified components) maybe even the
[EMAIL PROTECTED], which directory they should be
installed to etc. Making the guid attribute localizable is
perhaps not the best idea, since this would move the
guid to an entirely different file (.wxl) and thus decrease
readability.
Maybe some sort of base component tag which
includes all info shared between the different language
versions and then a localized component tag that refers
to the base component?
Something like:
<ComponentTemplate Id="Foo">
<File ... src="???" />
<Registry ... value="$(loc.FooBar)" />
<Class ... />
<Category Id="..." Qualifier="???" />
</ComponentTemplate>
<DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLDIR1033">
<Component Id="Foo1033" Guid="..."
Template="Foo" srcdir="1033" Qualifier="1033" />
</DirectoryRef>
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Comment By: Alexey Logachyov (htfv2)
Date: 2006-03-03 14:26
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Try using .wxl files. For example:
<DirectoryRef Id="$(loc.Component.Foo.DirectoryId)">
<Component Id="$(loc.Component.Foo.Id)"
Guid="$(loc.Component.Foo.Guid)">
...
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
And .wxl file goes like this:
<WixLocalization>
<String Id="Component.Foo.Id">...</String>
<String Id="Component.Foo.Guid">...</String>
<String Id="Component.Foo.DirectoryId">...</String>
</WixLocalization>
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