Okay, that's getting to the crux of the issue. What is missing or what did
you add to make you so much faster outside of the WiX build process that
made it worthwhile to do that work?
>From my point of view, you should be able to get the same exact wins inside
the WiX toolset without having to do the work to extract the code out of
the WiX build process and create a new one.
What was different outside of the WiX toolset?
PS: if someone wants to go about getting the extension build to use the
built files they'd be available in the SDK, that seems reasonable to me as
long as it makes it easier to build the extensions, not harder. <smile/>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote:
> I appreciate this wouldn’t be trivial to arrange but I believe the
> benefits would be worth it. I base this on the speed at which I have been
> able to develop the extended BA, spending time breaking it out of the WiX
> build has made it so much easier to work on.****
>
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> *From:* Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
> *Sent:* 18 February 2013 21:07
> *To:* wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
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> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] Building WiX Code****
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> On 18-Feb-13 14:22, Neil Sleightholm wrote:
>
> ****
>
> There is an SDK for WiX so I would expect the extensions to use it****
>
> I think that's the root disconnect: The extensions that ship with WiX
> aren't separate from WiX, so there's been no reason to build them
> separately. It's not that I think they shouldn't or that it's a bad idea,
> just that that's not how it's been done. So building them separately is
> reasonable -- but it can't break the things that need to work for things
> that ship with WiX, such as versioning and error numbers.
>
> I'd add that breaking the build into separate partitions like this reduces
> the extent to which the build can be parallelized. Minimizing that impact
> would also be good.
>
> Making all that work (as well as making the build output match the staging
> output) is probably a 2.5 on a difficulty scale of 1 to 10.
>
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