Robert, I'm only using WiX 2.0 so needed something that was easier to integrate and maintain instead of Tallow. Tallow was fine for getting you started but if you're working on a large web project with thousands of files and everything's in flux, it's a total pain to add and delete files manually. I thought that work should be automated. Paraffin has worked great for the projects I've been on.
As for WiX 3.0, I've never looked at it because 1) it's under active development and I needed the stability of 2.0 and 2) it is essentially undocumented where 2.0 has Gabor's tutorial to get you going. Hope it helps! John Wintellect http://www.wintellect.com 877-968-5528 >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:11 AM >To: John Robbins; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: RE: [WiX-users] A better TALLOW - PARAFFIN > >How does Parrafin compare to heat.exe ? > >Heat is supposed to be the replacement for tallow in the v3 world. > >Personally, I like the way tallow worked. I am using a modified version >of it myself. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John >Robbins >Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:27 AM >To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [WiX-users] A better TALLOW - PARAFFIN > >Hello, > >As you all know, Tallow for WiX 2.0 can be a bit, how shall we say it, >troublesome. :) I developed a better tool, PARAFFIN, which creates an >easier to use WiX fragment and also handles updating the WiX fragment as >files are added and removed from your directories. It's turned the hours >and hours of manual WiX fragment editing down to minutes a day for me. I >thought you all might find it useful. (Note that using PARAFFIN can >break component rules so be careful.) > >Here's the links to the discussion and the code: >http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/10/18/wix-hint s >-for-new-users-part-1-of-3.aspx >http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/10/19/wix-the- p >ain-of-wix-part-2-of-3.aspx >http://www.wintellect.com/cs/blogs/jrobbins/archive/2007/10/21/wix-a-be t >ter-tallow-paraffin.aspx > >Please let me know if you find any bugs or have feature requests. > >Hope it's helpful! > >John >Wintellect >http://www.wintellect.com >877-968-5528 > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- - >- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. >Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. >Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
