Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-12 Thread Nick Ball
Thanks for the fantastic detailed clarification on this issue! I will endeavour to use the melt approach outlined in Bob's post. -Nick -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET i

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-09 Thread Rob Mensching
FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 8:02 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating pat

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Nick Ramirez
Sounds like undocumented functionality of Melt. I don't see anything about using it that way in the WiX.chm. Also, binder variable don't solve the problem of binding the source files into the XML file. They only give you a way to list a bunch of paths to probe. So they don't replace the functiona

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated) Bind paths vs. Visual Studio project references (e.g. $(var.MyProject.TargetDir))...the latter doesn't require passing custom parameters to light. Why make the specifying of a source file more arcane with a bind

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Nick Ramirez
Bind paths vs. Visual Studio project references (e.g. $(var.MyProject.TargetDir))...the latter doesn't require passing custom parameters to light. Why make the specifying of a source file more arcane with a bind paths binder variable? Especially when the use case is a patch file in the unseen futur

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Rob Mensching
t: Thursday, January 8, 2015 11:50 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated) You need to start using the bindpath variables in your wxs sources. Melt will take care of pointing the wixpdb

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Rob Mensching
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated) Ouch. So now you have to keep your old and new source files on hand. Would be nice to keep the bind-files option or work it into the wixpdb. Also, not being able to bind the files into the wixout or

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Tunney, Stephen
-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated) Ouch. So now you have to keep your old and new source files on hand. Would be nice to keep the bind-files option or work it into the wixpdb. Also, not being able to bind the files into the wixout or wixpdb means that if you move the wixout

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Nick Ramirez
Ouch. So now you have to keep your old and new source files on hand. Would be nice to keep the bind-files option or work it into the wixpdb. Also, not being able to bind the files into the wixout or wixpdb means that if you move the wixout/wixpdb and then try to run Pyro against it, all the paths a

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patches using wixout (-bf flag deprecated)

2015-01-08 Thread Rob Mensching
Yes. _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Nick Ball [mailto:nick.b...@grantadesign.com] Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 3:17 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.n