First, picking reasonable defaults for things in WiX is the only way we’ll
reduce the complexity. However, exposing the full power of the Windows
Installer for those that want/need it is also still very important.
Second, thank you for the data point on “medium” vs. “high”. I’ve heard that
data point from others that the time difference doesn’t work out sometimes.
Bob’s point about measuring is probably still a thing to do.
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From: Stephen Tunney [mailto:stephen.tun...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 11:18 AM
To: WiX toolset developer mailing list
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] WiX v4.0 Default Compression Level?
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<mailto: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<mailto: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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Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS 66214 | Ext: 431050
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From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com<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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