Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-20 Thread Scott Palmer
I wrote a small program to walk a directory hierarchy and generate the XML for a fragment that defines a ComponentGroup for the root folder that you specify. It's an easy program to write and the output can be customized to the way I like it, i.e. a lot cleaner than the output from the WiX tool,

Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-20 Thread André Pönitz
Matthew Janulewicz wrote: > I don't think there is an elegant way to do this, as the Wix > tools (or any other tools for that matter) can't predict what > ComponentRef's you want under which features. Everything under a certain directory put in one feature seems to be a fairly good first approxi

Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Bennett
Yeah, looks like the way to go. For the curious, I made an XSL template to do it (mostly as an excuse to learn XSL). I don't really know what I'm doing, but here's my partial solution anyway: (it generates just the raw text of the inside of the block, rather than actually modifying the original .w

Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-19 Thread Eric Fesh
In the past I've used a perl script to "twaddle" the tallow output into a form that can be used in a feature... These days I've been breaking up my source files and using to collect the components in each file. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Softw

Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-18 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
ComonentRef tags. -Matt _ From: Steve Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 3:18 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components Hi all, Is there a good way to generate the code for a f

[WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-18 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, Is there a good way to generate the code for a feature with lots of components? Generating the code for the components is ok with tallow/mallow. But is there a slightly elegant way to generate all the tags? Short of awk or similar? Surprisingly WiXEdit doesn't seem to do this. S