It depends what type of text file.
If the files are XML, the wixca.wixlib includes a custom action which
may accomplish what you need.
If the file is an older style .ini file, then there may be support for
what you need built into Microsoft Installer (see the IniFile element in
the WiX help).
If neither of these support what you need, I would suggest first coming
back to this mailing list with a more complete description of what you
need to do - it may be more sensible to do what is being asked of you a
different way to avoid problems with component rules etc. If necessary
(and hopefully it will not be), you will have to generate a custom
operation - either in a DLL (as a custom action) or as an EXE which is
executed during installation.
I say that hopefully it will not be necessary because as you will know
(if you are a regular reader of this group) custom actions are
notoriously difficult to get 100% right when you take into account the
repair and rollback requirements... and if you get them wrong you may
not know it until it is too late to fix.
Regards,
Richard
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:00 AM
To: WiX-Users
Subject: [WiX-users] Custom installation
Hi,
My installer is supposed to perform a custom installation procedure,
such as parsing existing text files and inserting it's own text elements
in these files, and also appending text to existing text files.
Is there a mechasim for such actions? If not what should I use - an
external DLL seems risky.
Thanks
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