Re: [WiX-users] Speed vs Stability: Large numbers of Components

2013-01-30 Thread John Cooper
taller XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Speed vs Stability: Large numbers of Components Hi Neil, You said: " I also forced a version number for each file to ensure that if I had to perform an upgrade the file would be overwritten REGARDLESS if it had changed forcing integrity of the applic

Re: [WiX-users] Speed vs Stability: Large numbers of Components

2013-01-30 Thread Wesley Manning
Neil Hayes [mailto:neil.ha...@syspro.com] Sent: January-30-13 2:04 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Speed vs Stability: Large numbers of Components I'm in a similar situation with close to 30,000 files to deploy of which perhaps 50 - 100 are DLL's, EXE, OCX etc. I'v

[WiX-users] Speed vs Stability: Large numbers of Components

2013-01-29 Thread Neil Hayes
I'm in a similar situation with close to 30,000 files to deploy of which perhaps 50 - 100 are DLL's, EXE, OCX etc. I've ended up grouping files together in a component, (with the exception of DLL's etc) sometimes up to 5,000 or 6,000 in one component. I also forced a version number for each fil

Re: [WiX-users] Speed vs Stability: Large numbers of components

2013-01-29 Thread Bob Arnson
On 25-Jan-13 10:44, Hoover, Jacob wrote: >I currently have a single MSI with ~30k components. During installations > and major upgrades it appears the sheer number of components is causing > performance issues (the files are data files so there aren't version info > headers). What is the bes

[WiX-users] Speed vs Stability: Large numbers of components

2013-01-25 Thread Hoover, Jacob
I've been using Burn and Wix for a bit now and while not a Wix specific issue I was hoping for some comments from the community. I currently have a single MSI with ~30k components. During installations and major upgrades it appears the sheer number of components is causing performance issues