Not good at this inline stuff but I hope you can follow...
Personally I think it is a big issue. For me the dev cycle of WiX is too long,
so I have to take what you have written and make it stand alone so I can keep
it in my own dev/build cycle. That means making it build in an environment that
anyone can build with no more than just the instruction "install WiX".
My BA - For the same reason, the Std BA wouldn't build without a lot of hassle,
mine builds on it is own, you can download it from Codeplex and as long as WiX
is installed you run build.bat - job done.
The only reason I say the extensions is that that was the original theme of my
comment. I would like to add to the IIS Extensions if it was easy.
I appreciate the issue of splitting the code but in my opinion it would be
worth it, as I see it it is currently too complex. I have been trying to build
WiX code for many years and it has never been possible to resubmit my changes
because the codebase is not structured in a way that makes it easy so I have to
rely on submitting bugs and hoping you guys can fix them. For example, the IIS
site code bug, the IIS log folder bug, IIS mine types - I solved these years
ago but by writing extra code rather than enhancing the core code.
I am not trying to be negative (I am all for being devil's advocate too), I
would just like it to be easier to contribute which I think would help the core
code.
Neil
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: 19 January 2013 18:29
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX Code
On 19-Jan-13 08:37, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
(Playing devil's advocate. For the record.<g>)
The problem I see with building and therefore contributing is that the code is
structured as a single unit and to build any one part you have to have built
the whole thing.
How serious an impediment do you think it is? Yes, you have to build a couple
parts of the tree (not the whole thing, though that's the easiest approach) but
only once. Then you can churn inside one project without ever rebuilding
anything.
For example, I have created my own BA and the first thing I had to do
Why did you have to do that?
To make things easier I would like to suggest that all the WiX extensions
Why the extensions? Or, why *just* the extensions?
The BalExtension is quite good in that all the source is in the same folder but
many others e.g. the IIsExtension has the code spread around to you have to
look in the "ext" folder and "ca\serverca" to find the code.
It just requires a bunch of splitting the DLLs, mostly the Util stuff that
lives in serverca.
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