Re: [WiX-users] Performance Issues with File table sequencing

2010-03-22 Thread jhennessey
> Were you using Components containing single files as generated by heat.exe? Many of the components only contain a single file but others have multiple files per component (mostly for ASP.NET projects that contain a lot of files). Note that I only have to support major upgrades so having multiple

Re: [WiX-users] Performance Issues with File table sequencing

2010-03-22 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/22/2010 8:36 AM, jhennessey wrote: > In the end I just wanted to put this out there to raise awareness of the > issue and also to see if I should put in a feature request or something. > Yes, please. Though we'll need a lot more detail: MSI installs files in order of their sequence, not

Re: [WiX-users] Performance Issues with File table sequencing

2010-03-22 Thread Albert At School
2010 14:02 Aan: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Onderwerp: Re: [WiX-users] Performance Issues with File table sequencing Were you using Components containing single files as generated by heat.exe? Can you explain how you modified your File Id's to streamline the sequenci

Re: [WiX-users] Performance Issues with File table sequencing

2010-03-22 Thread Pally Sandher
- From: jhennessey [mailto:jack.hennes...@onbase.com] Sent: 22 March 2010 12:36 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Performance Issues with File table sequencing After days of researching why the current installer that I am porting from InstallShield (it's a pure

[WiX-users] Performance Issues with File table sequencing

2010-03-22 Thread jhennessey
After days of researching why the current installer that I am porting from InstallShield (it's a pure MSI not InstallScript) to WiX installs so much slower I think I have found an answer. It looks like WiX sequences files in the file table by their file id. In comparison it appears that InstallShi