Hi Neil

Understood. I'm actually doing some work on this regard on a fork I made on
codeplex.
I needed to enable the harvesting on WiX 3.6 in order to test my changes.
Just want to ask if doing a Pull Request is sufficient for submitting my
changes to the main branch of the WiX codeset (once I'm done)?

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote:

> It is disabled for a reason, harvesting is not trivial (or "straight
> forward") and there are all sorts of pitfalls. Personally I would avoid it,
> in my experience I have never found automatic harvesting to be something
> results in stable installs. The current implementation in Votive is only
> able to harvest the main output and misses dependant assemblies.
>
> I use "heat" as a good first pass to save me typing but after the initial
> pass I handcraft the component but YMMV.
>
> Neil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dandre [mailto:dandre...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 17 November 2011 16:06
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 Project Harvesting
>
> Ah I finally found it.
> It was disabled by default until it was sorted out in the code base.
> You can re-enable it in 2 ways:
>
>  * Go to the wix targets files in 'C:\Program Files
>    (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\WiX\v3.x' and set the
>    'EnableProjectHarvesting' to true
>  * Add <EnableProjectHarvesting>true</EnableProjectHarvesting> in your
>    wix ms build project file
>
>
> Just bear in mind, its probably disabled for a reason so keep that in mind
> when you use it.
>
>
> On 11/16/2011 9:46 PM, Helge Kruse wrote:
> > Well, it should. Unfortunately it doesn't. There is neither
> > Product.Generate.wxs not _ProjectName.wxs what is usually generated.
> > I managed to uninstall version 3.6.2221.0 and could install version
> > 3.5.2519.0
> >
> > Now the Votive plugin spawns Heat to harvest the application project's
> > output and generates the files mentioned above.
> > The project references harvesting is a long term wish from a lot of
> > users. But I don't know if this can be implemented in the next time.
> >
> > Helge
> >
> >
> > Am 14.11.2011 07:00, schrieb Dandre Jansen van Vuuren:
> >> Well Harvesting should be straight forward. You reference a project,
> open
> >> the properties window, and choose that Harvesting flag to be true. You
> also
> >> need to have the Directory ID to match up with the one you have in your
> >> Product.wxs file. That should be it. The current limitation with this
> >> harvester is that is doesn't harvest the project references.
> >> But I would like to know if in 3.6 they're planning to take that out or
> >> whether its just a bug that causes heat.exe not to be called at all.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Helge Kruse<helge.kr...@gmx.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I had the same exprience that harvesting is dropped in Votive/(WiX3.6).
> >>> I thogh there was a documentation for Votive that explicitly describes
> this
> >>> harvesting. Can you help me with a pointer to this
> documentation/tutorial?
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Dandre Jansen van Vuuren"<dandre...@gmail.com>
> >>> To:<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> >>> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:51 PM
> >>> Subject: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 Project Harvesting
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Hi all
> >>>>
> >>>> Is the Project harvesting still working for WiX 3.6? I've tried it but
> >>>> heat.exe never gets called when I build a setup project that
> references
> >>>>
> >>> an
> >>>
> >>>> application project.
> >>>>
> >
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