You might want to go one step further and eliminate the cab files altogether. The installation package as a whole is certainly not nearly as compact and neat but you might gain some performance not extracting from the cab.
If the content lends itself to the concept, you could try breaking it up into multiple projects and use a bootstrapper to sequence those parts. I used it to fairly good success with a particularly enormous project (Started at ~30GB and after three years of updates is about to hit ~50GB) as well as another project that was smaller at ~5GB and found that it actually helped with performance across the board for build, install, update, and uninstall. I don't know how much improvement you would see at 3GB though. It did help that both projects were very easy to break up into logical components so that may also impact how useful the idea is for you. If you do find anything else useful, I would certainly be interested in hearing about it. On 5/18/07, Igor Maslov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is probably more Windows Installer question than a WiX specific. > > I have an install with abot 3 GB of files. All it does is copying files and > creating shortcuts. > > MSI file has tranforms for several languages, this localization affects only > installer GUI, > set of files is language neutral and it's stored in separate cab files not > embedded in MSI. > > The speed of the installation phase is very slow. At the beginning of the > installation, just before copying files > it sits there for 5 minutes. > > I wonder if there are any properties or settings I could use to improve > speed of installation (and uninstall) > > Thank you > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-improve-speed-of-installation--tf3780060.html#a10690035 > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- --Nathan Stohlmann Minneapolis, MN USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
