Re: [WiX-users] Dealing with very large number of files

[Christopher Painter]

Hi Allan,
   
   Here are my thoughts related to your question if you are interested:
   
  
http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2007/06/dealing-with-very-large-number-of-files.html
  
Regards,
  Chris
  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
      I’m just getting started with Wix, and despite some learning curve (and 
no Windows Installer experience) I’m generally happy.
  The one item I am worried about is managing a very large number of files. Our 
application’s Help directory contains about 1500 files (html, gif, etc). It 
seems the only way to get these files installed is to list them explicitly 
(with some help from Heat). It also appears that it is suggested to make each 
file a component.
  Explicitly dealing with 1500 files and their component GUIDs seems likely to 
have a very low ROI for the programmer and company. I’m sure my clients would 
rather have me crank out a few useful features in the application than spend 
countless hours on all those individual entries. Perhaps if you have a million 
clients, then dealing with all those files individually makes sense, but with 
100, 1000 or 10,000 clients, the cost-benefit ratio doesn’t look very good.
  So…is there any way to do something like this:
  <Files Id="helpfiles" Source="C:\MyApp\Help\*.*" />
  
  …or any other approach to make this problem manageable? It seems like a very 
standard feature with other installer technologies.
  Thanks,
  -Allan
  
  Allan Bommer, P.E.
  Chief Design Engineer, Structural Concrete Products
  The Bentley Structural Team
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  ph:  206-783-9556
  fax: 610-458-1060
  www.Bentley.com/Structural
  
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