Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-30 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Orca/InstEd and see if you can spot the difference: one might have more in it. -Original Message- From: Wang, Miaohsi [mailto:miaohsi.w...@invensys.com] Sent: 26 January 2012 16:34 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch install

Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-30 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
Do the dll version numbers change automatically in the build ? -Original Message- From: john.burak [mailto:john.bu...@telvent.com] Sent: 26 January 2012 18:21 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow As a follow up to my last

Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-26 Thread john.burak
As a follow up to my last email here, it turns out signing was /not/ the issue after all. If we compile a .NET assembly twice in a row (same source code each time) the second DLL is binary-different than the first. Maybe it's putting a time stamp in there. So I'm guessing Torch is doing a binary

Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-26 Thread john.burak
Hi Miaohsi, We are currently having a very similar problem where I work. Torch.exe seems to be detecting all of our .NET assemblies as changed, even though only a few of them are actually different in source code. Hence, all of the .NET assemblies are going into the patch, making it is huge and

Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-26 Thread Wang, Miaohsi
tcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:43 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow If you generate a verbose log for each patch application, you'll be able to see wh

Re: [WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-24 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
If you generate a verbose log for each patch application, you'll be able to see which parts are taking more time. -Original Message- From: Wang, Miaohsi [mailto:miaohsi.w...@invensys.com] Sent: 23 January 2012 19:53 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Our WiX

[WiX-users] Our WiX patch installer is very slow

2012-01-23 Thread Wang, Miaohsi
Dear All, We create both our product base installer (version 6.0) and its upgrade installer (version 6.0.1) in WiX. We also create the patch installer in WiX. However, the resulting msp file runs really slow (It takes longer than 30 minutes to complete.). In contrast, the patch installer create