martin lavelle wrote: > A clear repeatible patern has emerged. Once the cabinet exceeds (about) > 720MB, Pyro crashes.
To be fair, it's not crashing, it's detecting and reporting a fatal error. > I sat watching WiX's temp files in the temp folder, and there is always one > WiX file which balloons (Presumably it's the cabinet). Varying the Computer > running WiX causes the ultimate size the temp file can reach to vary. Using > older versions of WiX doesn't make much difference. I can't get the Patch to > approach 2GB, which it should be able to achieve (I believe). > I don't know that that's true (patch size limit), but patches do have a limitation similar to .wixouts in that there's a single embedded cabinet that contains all the payloads (delta or full-file). > To work around this I've tried generating Delta Patches (command-line switch > -delta), which unfortunately causes Pyro to Crash very quickly. > Crash or error?<g> > I think this is the same problem described in Sourceforge Bugs item #1708072, > which concerns arbitrary size limits on cabinets in MSI's. > > Can anybody suggest something constructive? > Shall I raise a Bug? > If you can describe a good repro, please bug it. Visual Studio has shipped patches of several hundred MB with WiX v3.0 patching, but nothing over 700MB. Worst case, you can try using PatchCreation instead; if it works, you've pinpointed the bug in WiX but otherwise it's likely a patch limitation. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
