Hello Fellow WiX Users, This is my first post to the mailing list, please forgive any noob faux pas. Feel free to correct me as well.
I recently delivered a project that installed 8.5 GB worth of files. In addition to WiX, I used John Robbins' Paraffin tool to automatically generate the file elements and component groups. Because Paraffin defaults the assignment of all components to DiskID="1" I felt it necessary to modify the source code so Paraffin kept track of the current total file size and assigned components to corresponding media elements as the size increased beyond the size of each media element. Anyway, I would like to forward my changes to John Robbins and suggest adding a "media size" switch to support media-spanning in Paraffin. Before I do that, I thought it made sense to first verify my assumptions. -Approx. 8.5 Gigabytes of files (I can verify this is accurate) -Multiple media elements for creating multiple .cab files. (I chose this approach. I would have loved to put the entire thing into one media element, but I could not figure out how) -Entire installation (.msi + all .cabs) delivered on a single DVD+DL disc. (I can verify that the files successfully installed from the disc that contained the (.msi and all .cabs) So in practice this worked for me. However, I know nothing about the proper way to create an installer. Am I right in assuming that because we had 8.5 GB worth of files to install, it was necessary to specify multiple media elements? Was there a clever way I could have used a single media element yet specifed through the XML files that the install files should be spread out across multiple .cab files? If a large install can be created with a single media element, then I obviously wasted time with my approach and I shouldn't bother Mr. Robbins with my feature request. Otherwise, I'd like to send him my code along with a feature request. Regardless, I appreciate any response to this question about needing to use multiple media elements to span files across .cab files. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
