Re: [WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

2010-02-22 Thread Wilson, Phil
: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring Bob, What kind of failures are handled by this rollback feature? Is it failure like user pressing "cancel" during installation, or rather disk failure, or

Re: [WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

2010-02-22 Thread Jacek Pospychała
Bob, What kind of failures are handled by this rollback feature? Is it failure like user pressing "cancel" during installation, or rather disk failure, or privileges problem, or files conflict, or something else? I'm trying to asses, how much I need it. Is it possible to switch off that rollback a

Re: [WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

2010-02-20 Thread Bob Arnson
On 2/19/2010 4:37 AM, Jacek Pospychała wrote: > Do you know what extra does the installer do, that takes so much time? It supports rollback which entails extra bookkeeping to be able to restore files on failure. > And > does it make any change if I e.g. split it to more features, or more > compo

[WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

2010-02-19 Thread Jacek Pospychała
hi, I'm building an MSI package using WiX for an application consisting of about 2 files in 1800 folders, total of ~500MB uncompressed. It's built as a single feature, with component per each folder. Installer's single task is to copy all the files, there's no DLLs to register, etc. Ready MSI