Mark: With your Web Deployments, what things are you trying to do?
David Adams MSN MessengerID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Mark Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: [WiX-users] rookie here: suggestions for Votive / Web >DeploymentProject / wildcard inclusion ? >Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:01:10 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from lists-outbound.sourceforge.net ([66.35.250.225]) by >bay0-mc9-f1.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444); Thu, 19 >Oct 2006 13:41:40 -0700 >Received: from sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net (unknown [10.3.1.93])by >sc8-sf-spam2.sourceforge.net (Postfix) with ESMTPid 52AA3E48D; Thu, 19 Oct >2006 13:41:40 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net >([10.3.1.92]helo=mail.sourceforge.net)by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net >with esmtp (Exim 4.43)id 1Gaehu-0000io-07for >wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:41:38 -0700 >Received: from smtp3-server95.ilap.com ([216.223.130.191])by >mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1Gaehr-000441-FZfor >wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:41:37 -0700 >Received: from DEV05 (TOROON12-1168099190.sdsl.bell.ca >[69.159.199.118])(authenticated bits=0)by smtp3-server95.ilap.com >(8.13.1/8.13.1/S3 - Internet Light and Power(tm) * http://ilap.com/ (tm)) >with ESMTP id k9JJ1vdX011708for <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>;Thu, 19 >Oct 2006 15:02:00 -0400 (EDT) >X-Message-Info: LsUYwwHHNt2IIC7bhvJ+cS6iY3N8MbqPx8/12zVNq30= >X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 >thread-index: AcbzsPC5dwJ7mWK7Q5KjyWwEDqhisA== >X-Spam-Score: 0.2 (/) >X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net.See >http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details.Report problems >tohttp://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=2000010.2 HTML_60_70 > BODY: Message is 60% to 70% HTML0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: >HTML included in message >X-BeenThere: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 >Precedence: list >List-Id: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML >toolset."<wix-users.lists.sourceforge.net> >List-Unsubscribe: ><https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users>,<mailto:[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> >List-Archive: ><http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=wix-users> >List-Post: <mailto:wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >List-Subscribe: ><https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users>,<mailto:[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Oct 2006 20:41:40.0604 (UTC) >FILETIME=[FAF083C0:01C6F3BE] > >Hello all, I have come across WIX just recently and I am quickly growing >attached to this solution. > > > >That said, I am hoping to get some direction on how to proceed with a >commercial web application deployment. > > > >Current process (this are all steps of a team build): > >Libraries build > >Web site compiles > >Web Deployment project merges web assemblies > >Team Build takes output piped from web deployment and does some cleanup > > > >Deployment is really done through xcopy and database scripts (although the >manual steps are removed by a home made installation). > > > >Now I want to move to MSI but vdproj does not offer enough flexibility. > > > >I was thinking that I could pipe the project outputs of either the team >build or web deployment project into a wixproj but I see that is not the >way >things are done. No problem, I decided to create the wxs file manually. >then of course I recognize how long that will take given the hundreds of >files involved. So I search for a way to add files using a wildcard, and >recursively and run into some threads debating the use of <FileGroup> and >it >seems the winner was deprecating this element. > > > > >From what I read there are tools that can help enumerate the files. but >my >question is, how is this integrated if at all with Visual Studio / Votive? > > > >It seems like I might be better off giving up the idea that the deployment >packaging can be part of my solution, and just have it exist as a >standalone >project to run after a release build. i.e. when team build is done - take >its output, and use some trick to enumerate the directories and files to >include in a wxs. After each release build the manual task would be to >compare the file set with a previous release, update GUIDs and edit the >.wxs >file. am I on the right track? > > > >Does anyone have a good example of a .wxs that serves the installation of a >web application that they could share? > > > >Thanks. > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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