We have light and lit today because C/C++ has link.exe/lib.exe. If someone wanted to argue that we should get rid of lit.exe and just make light.exe the tool that outputs build stuff, I could see that. Lit *is* different because it doesn't do linking or binding which makes it different beastie...
Okay. What do you mean "higher-level model"? We need to do lots of work in the build .targets alone to span builds and such to support patching but I'm not sure that's what you'd mean by "higher-level model". _______________________________________________________________ FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 10:46 AM To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary table for patching On 19-Jan-15 16:13, Rob Mensching wrote: > I'm really not at all excited about *another* tool in v4. Why do we have Light and Lit? :) > I guess that's where I'd like to see this in v4 (or later if it can't make > v4): patching should operate off the standard build output: msi, external > cabs/files, and .wixpdb. If we can't patch from that, we should enhance what > we're outputting to patch it. The current model seems like a bad fit for magicking the .wixpdbs. I think we need a higher-level model to squeeze that in. I'm not at all opposed to that, fwiw. :) -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
