Reggie,
From what I've seen, the general guidance is to keep your components as
small as possible. If, for instance, you found a bug in one of your source
files, but had all source files in one component, your patch or upgrade
installer would have to include all of the files in that component.
It is my understanding that the generally accepted practice is to have
many, many components (up to 1 per file), and then have features that describe
what you are looking for. If I were authoring your installer, I would probably
split up your files into components at the directory level (unless I had time
to split at the file level), and then put all your components into a single
feature. That way, all of your files get installed or uninstalled together,
and you can still support smaller patch files if necessary down the road.
Cullen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reggie Burnett
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:27 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Component spanning directories
We've been using Wix for some time now and recently got around to cleaning
up our wix files. As we are adding samples and source code to the
installer, I find it hard to believe that I can't make a single component
include all my source files. As I understand it, a component should be
anything that you want installed or removed as a unit. Well, if I want all
my sources treated as a single unit, then a single component should do it.
However, light complains about duplicate symbols.
Can this be done? If not, why on earth not? It would seem ridiculous to
create a thousand components to install a source tree of a thousand
directories when it should be installed or removed as a unit.
Thanks
Reggie
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