Wrong person to ask really, I was just giving my opinion. I raised some issues with the current implementation and personally really don't think harvesting will ever be robust.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Dandre Jansen van Vuuren [mailto:dandre...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 November 2011 14:48 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.6 Project Harvesting 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. > >>>> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. 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