> "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset" doesn't mean > "e-mail here to ask for help on every little issue you get stuck on > without trying to figure it out for yourself". Maybe I'm being too > harsh > on yourself but there's a lot of people posting questions on here which > can be answered by a single line reply containing a URL to either the > WiX tutorial, WiX documentation or an MSDN page for Windows Installer. > What's even worse is some people appear to not even read the links > they're directed to & ask another question which would be answered if > they took the time to look over the page they've been pointed at.
Sorry, but you completely missed the point with our question. We are open source committers on our own and are very active on several other newsgroups in the Java area. We invested four weeks so far on learning about WiX and MSI, we have read the MSI documentation two times, we two times follows the brilliant tutorial, we have read lots of links at MSDN and other places. We just did not found a solution to the question "how to prevent that the disk scan is performed *every* time and hoped that some guru found a solution to prevent us from spending lots of more days just to detect that there is no solution. If the idea of participating of an already worked-out solution found by some other user in front of this background does not qualify us for asking this particular question, then I actually do not understand what types of question are actually allowed to get asked in this forum at all. I always had the impression that everybody on this newsgroup was very helpful and friendly and lots of our problems acually had been solved by some kind guys understanding that not everybody wants to invest more weeks just to find out what others can tell in one minute, and we always had been very thankful for that and always told that on this list so far. But today some of these friendly and helpful guys seems to have forgotten to take his pills or what a forum actually is good for: To talk. What else did we do? If you don't know the solution or don't like to provide it, no problem, we respect this. But we dislike being told to start thinking after investing weeks. Seems you got up on the wrong side this morning. Regards Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
