My Paraffin tool does keep the same GUIDs for the files when you run it repeatedly. For the itch I was trying to scratch was for projects that were always adding files not removing files.
As Bob points out, removing files is the problem. I've found two discussions that talk about removing files. The first is here: http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2007/05/29/wix-and-msp/. The idea is you replace the <File> element with a <RemoveFile> like the following: <Component Id='AnotherFile' Guid='C7D97EA9-83DF-4B07-8E38-D10A30F70FD2'> <RemoveFile Id='RemoveFile' On='install' Name='NewFile.txt'/> </Component> In my installers, I'm using patches to upgrade and the above trick does work. The second is discussed here: http://geekswithblogs.net/Vagmi.Mudumbai/archive/2006/06/11/81426.aspx, which involves some interesting jujitsu of transitive bit on the component and create a zero byte file. I don't even know how to express that in WiX format. :) Not being much of an installer guru (I'm still at the stare in confused stage) I've wondered if either of these are both good ideas. If so, I could add the appropriate option to Paraffin to handle the removed file case. If there are no good solutions for the removed files problem does that mean that there's a flaw in the installer technology? John Wintellect http://www.wintellect.com 877-968-5528 >-----Original Message----- >From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] >Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 7:04 PM >To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions > >Rob Mensching wrote: >> For Components with one file each... maybe. It's the closest we've >come. Still experimental (one reason it isn't documented well). >> > >It breaks down whenever files are removed, which is a problem especially >for Web apps. > >-- >sig://boB >http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >------ >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
