Re: [WiX-users] non-vital files in an installation

2012-05-23 Thread Andrew Maxwell
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Re: [WiX-users] non-vital files in an installation

2012-05-22 Thread Andrew Maxwell
on that would evaluate a custom property to > determine if it needs to be installed. Then in your installer you would > have a custom action which would enable the component (via a property) > if the file exist in the installation media. > > -Original Message- > From: An

Re: [WiX-users] non-vital files in an installation

2012-05-22 Thread Andrew Maxwell
> external UI. > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Andrew Maxwell < > andrew.maxw...@papercut.com > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've got a scenario where in some cases a file may be included in our > > distribution, but if it's not - no big deal, the

[WiX-users] non-vital files in an installation

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Maxwell
Hi all, I've got a scenario where in some cases a file may be included in our distribution, but if it's not - no big deal, the installation should continue on anyway. At the moment I've got the file flagged as Vital="no" , and this achieves my goal - except for a popup asking to retry/cancel/ignor

Re: [WiX-users] building an msi in the same dir as source files?

2012-05-20 Thread Andrew Maxwell
source folder set to a > pre-processor variable, e.g.: > Source="$(var.SourceFiles)\File1.exe" /> > > You can then set this a compile time. > > Neil > > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Maxwell [mailto:andrew.maxw...@papercut.com] > Sent: 18

[WiX-users] building an msi in the same dir as source files?

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Maxwell
Hi again all, My last post was a bit of a brain-dump, so I can boil my question down to a few points here: :) - using heat, is there a way to harvest a directory and suppress directory id/name insertion in the resulting .wxs? (when automating heat output , this is an annoyance) eg . heat.exe dir

[WiX-users] some questions about Heat automation

2012-05-16 Thread Andrew Maxwell
Hi fellow Wixians, I've been tasked with automating MSI creation , tying it into our build processes, and running into some grief with heat. So, I've got two questions for the list: a) There doesn't seem to be a way to fully automate the process from directory harvest all the way through to msi