Hi all, I'm new to wix, and have looked at the tutorial at tramonta and searched around various places, but the answer to this isn't immediately obvious to me, so I was hoping someone could help shed some light on it.
Our installer will be installing 3 large directories. Two of them are completely static 3rd party stuff that will not change at all for the release. However, the third directory is our main product build output, so that changes weekly. My question is: how do people deal with situations like this? I've looked at tallow & paraffin, and looks like I can use them (paraffin looks very nice) to build up my lists for inclusion in wxs file which will work perfect for 2 of the 3 directories & files. However, the third directory will change every week and there could be new files, files deleted, new directories, etc. Since all the stuff on tallow/paraffin i could see does not recommend re-running them on every build (so as not to have all new GUIDs and break component rules), I could run paraffin once and then every other build of my installer i could just do a paraffin -update... But then if new files get added one week, the next week -update would give them a different GUID unless I had some way of knowing when the new files were changed and to save that change. Asking designers to inform us of file additions/removals is not feasible - ~100 designers. So for that one directory that *could* change frequently, I could just store it as a zip file (this is what gets created by as a build artifact anyway) in the MSI and unzip it, couldn't I? Although lots of responses towards people asking questions about using Wix to handle zip files are very negative towards using zip files... so how are people handling situations like this? I would have assumed this was a common problem? I hope my point/question makes some sense. I would appreciate any help/suggestions/comments anyone has. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Question-about-including-large-number-of-%22modified%22-files...-tp2385558p2385558.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
