Ok, so here's my pitch:
v3.x would get a couple of new flags
-xn (extract in new directory format) <patch>
-xb (extract binaries, does not get squashed by -sextract and uses old path
format) <path>
Execution of the ExtractBinaries method would happen in Melt exclusively
even though the actual Method is in DTF (no one else would call it). This
makes it an easier merge to 4.x.
Options are mutually exclusive. This would maint
v4.x
Just change to match dark and accept it as a breaking change. -sextract
would suppress all extraction, including Binary, Icon, etc.
Thoughts?
On Sat Jan 03 2015 at 4:12:39 PM Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> On 02-Jan-15 11:50, Tunney, Stephen wrote:
>
> I have some good news regarding the work I’m doing with melt.
>
>
>
> It appears as though all other steps (light, torch, pyro) all seem to
> carry the changes forward from melt and applying the patch in Orca shows
> that the Binary data has been updated.
>
>
>
> All I need is some weigh in from Bob as to what to call the sub folder OR
> create a breaking change in melt for 3.10 or 4+ (I’ve currently forked 3x
> on github).
>
> Here's what I left on the pull request:
>
> Can't make this change [DTF change] in v3.x since it's a significant
> behavior change for all users of this method in DTF. I think the best
> approach for v3.x is to add a switch to melt to specify the binary output
> directory. If not specified, don't extract binaries. And that could be all
> internal to melt rather than a DTF change. Another approach would be to do
> kinda what dark does and extract files and binaries to their own
> subdirectories. That's also a behavior change but I could be convinced it's
> OK...
>
> Anyone care if we changed how Melt wrote its output? On the surface, Melt
> still does what it did: Extract the content and update the .wixpdb to
> match. The output tree would be different, so it would require someone
> using it to change how they update the output tree with new binaries.
>
> The more I talk about it, the bigger a change it seems...
>
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