On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, at 09:22AM, "János Brezniczky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2007/9/26, Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> On 25 Sep 2007, at 23:39, János Brezniczky wrote: >> >> > I would just add that it's easier to set Compressed="yes" on the >> > Package instead of setting it on each individual File element. (I >> > use WiX 2) >> >> But does it also apply to merged in modules? We're merging in one of >> the runtime modules for VS2005, and I noticed it bulked things up >> quite a bit. > > >I think so. As far as I experienced, the compression level specified in >the Media element greatly affects the increase in the size of the MSI when a >merge module is appended to the project.
I hadn't noticed CompressionLevel until Rob's mail just, and it *does* make a nice difference: it shaved a total of 13MB (about 20%) off my MSI files. Great stuff :-) Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
