Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique

2007-04-11 Thread Eddleman, Don
o the dark cavern of merge modules for generated output... From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:47 PM To: Eddleman, Don Cc: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique Eddleman

Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique

2007-04-10 Thread Bob Arnson
Eddleman, Don wrote: Bob, yes I'm talking about Hxs files (this was called Help2 as opposed to Help1 [chm file] within Microsoft and other circles) or some say MSDN and HTML. When you generate the MSDN content it creates html bits that are referenced in the index and collections file. For examp

Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique

2007-04-10 Thread Eddleman, Don
y, April 10, 2007 10:51 AM To: Bob Arnson; Eddleman, Don Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Survey on technique Actually, I view that a little bit differently. There are plenty of people that have chartered that unsupported territory. You can see their carcasses all

Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique

2007-04-10 Thread Rob Mensching
] Survey on technique Eddleman, Don wrote: Help2 content is generated from the code plus added content (like namespace documentation) and creates many files How many? When you say "Help2," are you referring to .HxS files or raw HTML files? My point here is I think it is a misnomer to thin

Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique

2007-04-10 Thread Bob Arnson
Eddleman, Don wrote: Help2 content is generated from the code plus added content (like namespace documentation) and creates many files How many? When you say "Help2," are you referring to .HxS files or raw HTML files? My point here is I think it is a misnomer to think that you should hand m

Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique

2007-04-10 Thread Eddleman, Don
, April 09, 2007 11:38 PM To: Eddleman, Don Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique Eddleman, Don wrote: I am curious on peoples thoughts of how to treat help2 content. I have the component per file working but it causes the msi to really explo

Re: [WiX-users] Survey on technique

2007-04-09 Thread Bob Arnson
Eddleman, Don wrote: I am curious on peoples thoughts of how to treat help2 content. I have the component per file working but it causes the msi to really explode in size Can you clarify what you mean? Having one file per component adds just a tiny bit of overhead for the associated table

[WiX-users] Survey on technique

2007-04-09 Thread Eddleman, Don
I am curious on peoples thoughts of how to treat help2 content. I have the component per file working but it causes the msi to really explode in size (plus the LGHT1076 warnings due to length of names) and I still have source files to add to the assembly for which I am generating an msi. It seems t