My reason is not to harvest into a single output file, but to make the harvester aware of both of all the file and directory names it is harvesting at one, so that (for instance) if I have two "web.config" files in the two different web applications, their Ids do not collide. Since Heat seems to use the filename as the File/@Id attribute, this would be a problem if I ran it twice on two separate webapp directory structures.
Anyway, my installer is not really required to support minor upgrades or patches, so this is academic for me, I'm just trying to get a better sense of what's going on under the covers. Since the VS team has committed to integrating Wix into VS10, any chance they will be adding resources to work on things like this? Thanks, Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:rob.mensch...@microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:42 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions Why do you want to harvest to separate directory structures into one output file? Use smaller files (Fragments), make your setup code manageable. Even if there is a good reason (you probably have one), as I noted before: there is no owner for heat today. It hasn't advanced since Derek put the initial 3 months of dev effort into it. Lots of bugs and feature requests sit idle against heat. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Lew [mailto:j...@liquidmachines.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions That's true if you can get away with running heat only once. Can heat be told to harvest two separate directory structures into one output file? -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:03 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WIX 3 - Suggestions Jeremy Lew wrote: > Well, I was talking about the Id values not the Guid values. They need > to be unique as well, no? Or only within their directory? > Heat should already be generating unique (though *not *stable) IDs when there are multiple files with the same name in different directories. -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ 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
