To expound a little more, the WiX toolset only adds the tables that you *must* have for an MSI to successfully execute. Since the beginning of time, all of the other tools on the market added every single table and often included data that was never used. I thought that was wasteful and actually saw many developers modifying their behavior (debugging phantom issues, for one) because they thought they needed all of the tables.
When I built the WiX toolset, I decided I would try to find the minimum set of tables actually required. I *think* we're there now (not that the Windows Installer team documents it anywhere <smile/>). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Dimmick Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:25 AM To: 'Jarl Friis'; 'Bob Arnson' Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] <CopyFile> in <Component> gives problems. If the table doesn't have anything in it, light will generally not generate it. There are some tables that it generates even if empty, but CreateFolders is not one of them. This saves some space in the MSI that would be taken up by the table's metadata. -- Mike Dimmick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
