Oh, and I think my email to the dev list with that XML in it is currently
awaiting approval. :)
On Tue Jan 27 2015 at 09:24:44 Tunney, Stephen <stephen.tun...@nuance.com>
wrote:
> Bob, exactly. This MSBuild task would call the Melt, candle, light,
> torch, and pyro tasks in the background using the supplied values. This
> would leverage all of our existing code and provide a simple façade for
> most users to create “normal” patches.
>
> I think it we use that pseudo task definition I laid out in an earlier
> email the user can create a .proj file that requires a minimal number of
> inputs (Upgrade MSI path(s), version, bindpaths, etc.) and the task can
> take care of the rest.
>
>
>
> *From:* Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
> *Sent:* January-26-15 9:21 PM
>
>
> *To:* wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] Updating Melt to extract files from the Binary
> table for patching
>
>
>
> On 22-Jan-15 13:55, Tunney, Stephen wrote:
>
> You’re suggesting that we remove the melt and torch steps and have pyro
> encompass **everything** that patch building requires? Or is this the
> Pyro MSBuild Task that you speak of?
>
> The latter. We need the building-block tools (torch, pyro) but can build
> tasks and targets on top of them.
>
>
> If we move to a MSBuild style the only questions that really need to be
> asked are:
>
> RTM MSI paths
>
> Upgrade MSI paths
>
> Patch Families to create
>
> Version
>
> Type
>
> I'm not talking about having MSBuild replace patch authoring. There's too
> much there to do it all in the project. That could be an option for a
> high-level, limited-scope kind of patching (i.e., no filtering). Before
> that, we need tasks and targets that drive "normal" patching.
>
>
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