ComponentRef, ComponentGroupRef, FeatureRef and/or FeatureGroupRef are all fine with Fragments if the components are mostly changing for each build. You only *really* need wixlibs or merge modules if you're sharing installer development with other teams/people or if you need to save yourself some build time & some of your components aren't changing very often.
Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Sohail Somani [mailto:soh...@taggedtype.net] Sent: 21 August 2010 06:11 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Shared files/registry question Awesome, thanks. I'm probably going to stick with ComponentGroupRef as the code generating my installers already works with that :D On 10-08-20 4:12 PM, Blair wrote: > Actually, wixlib and ComponentGroup/ComponentGroupRef. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 1:12 PM > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Shared files/registry question > > wixlib > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sohail Somani [mailto:soh...@taggedtype.net] > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:14 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Shared files/registry question > > Hi, > > I have 4 products for which I need installers. Each installer requires > 3 DLLs from another of my products. > > In my reading on the Internets, it appears that the "right" way to > share these DLL components is to use a merge module. However, the WiX > way appears to be to use a ComponentRef. > > Whether the above is right or wrong, could someone please enlighten me > as to the least headache-inducing way to do this properly with WiX? > > Thanks in advance. > -- Sohail Somani -- iBlog : http://uint32t.blogspot.com iTweet: http://twitter.com/somanisoftware iCode : http://bitbucket.org/cheez ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
