First off, heat was recently enhanced to support automation better: http://icumove.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FB93073C6534B681!461.entry
In terms of installation performance, the second option is better, IMHO. For instance, if you have thousands of icons, which are not the subject to upgrade regularly, then you can zip them and have a custom action to maintain that ZIP. For instance, you can extract it in the background during the installation, remove on uninstall, etc. If you need to upgrade those files, you'll have to overwrite the entire set, which is quite acceptable for icons. It means less control from Windows Installer, more responsibility to developer, but reduces the time of install/uninstall. This is not the "MSI recommended" way, of course, but in some situations it overweighs the potential problems of violating the rules :) Again, this is my own opinion. Hope this helps. -- Yan -----Original Message----- From: Tom Crozier [mailto:tcroz...@rackwise.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:25 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to handle installing a large number of files All - I need to know the best way to handle installing a large number of files. As part of the project I have 2 different directories with approximately 24,000 files (including subfolders) in each. I could use heat to generate the initial list but then I am assuming I have to maintain the list from then on since I would not want the file id's changing from release to release. The other method would be to zip up each directory and install the zip file. In this case I would need to write a custom action to unzip the files (unless there is already something available). Ideas? Suggestions? Thanks - TopCat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ 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
