This question has come up a couple of times in the last couple of days on various threads... but I'm still a little confused.
Which should be used when: MergeModules or WixLib?
So far as I understand these are the charactheristics:
MergeModules:
- Standard MSI object
- 'hard' linked by light
- self contained (except for <Dependency/>s)
- powerful <Dependency/> mechanism which allows many-to-many dependency relationships similar to most code dependencies.
* can be inspected/viewed using ORCA
- can be easily distributed
- contains compressed binaries
WixLib
- proprietary wix format
- 'soft' linked by lit (what does this mean exactly?)
- "sort-of" self-contained (not sure of the exact constraints)
- dependency is left to the regular Component (many-to-many?) and Feature (one-to-many) mechanisms
* no way to inspect wixlib files...
- can contain binaries (in 3.0)
My big concerns are the visibility (ORCA) and dependency mechanisms, although distributabilty is also important.
Am I missing something? Some bigger picture perhaps?
Thanks,
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