I'm still learning the ins and outs of WiX. I'm working on trying to
integrate the generation of an MSI into our automated build process, and
was wondering about the possibility of using heat.ext to harvest the
files needed for the features and components for the MSI. I've read a
few archived messages from the list that suggested that doing something
like this could potentially be problematic, and isn't recommended, but
if I understand correctly the reasons why, I'm not sure it would really
cause us a problem for what we're wanting to accomplish. So, I'd like to
try to confirm whether or not I understand what the issue is with using
heat, describe why I don't think its an issue for us, and it'd be great
if someone could confirm whether my thinking is correct or not.
So, if I understand correctly, the issue with using heat.exe to generate
source files for me as part of an automated build process is that for
each build, the GUID for each component would be different on each
build, which causes problems for the installer if you want it to be able
to "upgrade" a product installation. Is that right?
The reason I don't see this as a problem, is because we're not going to
be using our installers for widespread distribution of our product, and
not likely to upgrade an existing installation, but really just override
it. Well, not actually override it, but I'd like to setup the installer
to check whether or not there's a previous version of the product
installed, and if there is, don't upgrade it, just uninstall it before
installing the new version.
So, from what I can tell, since that's the way we want to use our
installer, that issue shouldn't really matter to us, and using heat.exe
to help generate our component and feature source files as part of our
build process should be fine, right? Any help or guidance would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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