Hey John, That sounds like a good way to get what you need. It makes sense to be mapping against your root source. In the past I had used Beyond Compare and just looked for orphans. Compared to what you are doing it sounds like I was in the dark ages <smile/>.
I am sure that other members would love to see such validation tools up on WixContrib (http://wixcontrib.codeplex.com/) *wink* *wink* Thanks, Brian Rogers "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:17 AM, John Ludlow <john.ludlow...@gmail.com>wrote: > Oh, and on the idea of walking the Directory table (missed this > before)... we have quite a number of directories that for one reason > or another don't line up, and some whose locations are defined at > install-time. Part of this is purely the number of installations we > have, another is that some of our installations are quite large and > install a number of projects that are disparate at source (but are > designed to work together at runtime). > > We could of course map the root of one of these "wandering > directories" to its real location, but it would be a lot of work and > error prone. > > I think the BinderFileManager solution gives us the best fit for now. > I may look at producing an analysis application based on DTF later on, > because you do have a good point that it'd be nice to be able to > verify that file x in the build area is the actual one that ends up in > the MSI - we do have other ways of checking this but they're not > fool-proof (as this fool has proven on more than one occasion :) ) > > Thanks again. > > John > > 2009/6/23 Brian Rogers <rogers.br...@gmail.com>: > > Hey John, > > > > Off the top of my head I would say take a look at the DTF tools. You > could > > write a simple managed code app that reads MSI output itself and does the > > verfication. After all the Component, Directory and File table should all > > line up if you walk them. You would then be able to validate two things, > the > > files you are putting into the MSI and where they are going to be > installed > > on the target system. > > > > Just a thought, > > > > Brian Rogers > > "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me > > http://icumove.spaces.live.com > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:30 AM, John Ludlow <john.ludlow...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > >> Hey, all > >> > >> I'm evaluating Wix v3.0 to see if we should adopt it, and run into a > >> snag. The problem is that in wix v2 we run light with -v and it > >> chucked out a lot of "Cabbing file xxx from yyy" style messages. > >> However, in Wix v3 they seem to have disappeared. Looking through > >> the code, it seems that no special logging takes place when a file is > >> cabbed anymore. > >> > >> I can understand why they might have been removed - there were a lot > >> of them after all. But we actually use those messages - part of our > >> validation process uses this to work out what files are /actually/ > >> shipped. This process is in its own build and usually runs once a > >> week. > >> > >> What's the best way of getting this information? As far as I can see, > >> these are my options: > >> > >> > >> * Parse the .wxs. However this gives me the variable-based path > >> for the file, which I then have to do a string-replace on (since it's > >> a different build I don't have actual access to the original values). > >> In addition, if someone adds a new file path based on a different > >> variable it impacts a part of the script that shouldn't affect at all. > >> > >> > >> * If the worst comes to the worst, I can always modify light.exe > >> to emit to the console, but it would be nicer if I didn't have to do > >> that. > >> > >> > >> Any other ideas? Ideally, if I could run light and have it produce an > >> xml file (or just a flat list in a file, or just dump them to STDOUT) > >> of all the files that would be included included full, absolute paths, > >> that would be perfect. I was half-expecting the wixout switch to do > >> this... > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> John > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Are you an open source citizen? 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