We have found that the difference in size between medium and high is
negligible but the time deltas to not line up. Medium compression is what
we use for a large mix of binaries, graphics, PDFs, etc. Our installers
are 350 megabytes minimum.
We have "none" for our debug builds already. Having this as part of the
framework would let us delete some code.
Wouldn't it be better to leave this as a required field for release and
force the user to evaluate which compression level suites them best?
On 18 Oct 2014 13:52, "Chris Dahlberg" <csdahlb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I, too, like the idea of defaulting to None for Debug builds and High for
> Release builds. That seems consistent with the building of other project
> types (such as C++), where Release builds often include additional
> optimizations or other steps.
>
> -Chris-
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:26 PM, John Cooper <jocoo...@jackhenry.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I like the idea of “none” for debug—it also would make it easy to
>> figure out which is which (by sheer size if nothing else). Likewise, at
>> least when the bundle is bound to the bootstrapper, maximum compression is
>> best.
>>
>>
>>
>> Probably also true for MSI’s and MSP’s that will be downloaded over the
>> wire to bootstrappers. Size matters.
>>
>>
>>
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>> *From:* Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 17, 2014 1:27 PM
>> *To:* WiX toolset developer mailing list
>> *Subject:* [WiX-devs] WiX v4.0 Default Compression Level?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bob and I are having a little conversation on a pull request about what
>> the default compression level should be in the WiX toolset:
>> https://github.com/robmen/wix4/commit/edf0a4cc32992d918846631fe7a2338bbf700c08#commitcomment-8206079
>>
>>
>>
>> Historically, we used mszip which I **thought** was generally derided in
>> this day and age in favor of LZX (low, medium, high). I’d be happy to be
>> wrong about that.
>>
>>
>>
>> My thinking was by default we should opt for the best compression. Of
>> course, that means the slowest build times. There are reasonable was to
>> control compression (WIX_COMPRESSION_LEVEL env var and –dcl switch) to
>> override that, say to set it to “none” on build machines. One thought is
>> to set “-dcl” to “none” in Debug builds by default?
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, I’m looking for suggestions? What do people think we should
>> default the compression level to in WiX v4.0 (since we can change it now).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
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