Re: [WiX-users] Heat and Directory Harvesting - Design Rationale

2009-05-13 Thread Eric St . John
t; To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 08:06:22 -0500 > Subject: [WiX-users] Heat and Directory Harvesting - Design Rationale > > Hi everyone, > > I have noticed that heat will harvest a folder and all subfolders and put the > files in individual components. While f

Re: [WiX-users] Heat and Directory Harvesting - Design Rationale

2009-05-13 Thread jballe
Hi I think the reason is that by using "one file, one component" you should be able to upgrade a component with a new release upgrading package and leave the rest non-changed files, so the installation will be a lot faster as unnecessary deleting, uncompressing og copying files can be avoided. Ho

[WiX-users] Heat and Directory Harvesting - Design Rationale

2009-05-13 Thread Jeff Reed
Hi everyone, I have noticed that heat will harvest a folder and all subfolders and put the files in individual components. While following the tutorials, I had learned that generally you put all files that reside in the same folder into a component together, as long as they're your "atomic uni