I'm just getting started with Wix, and despite some learning curve (and
no Windows Installer experience) I'm generally happy.
The one item I am worried about is managing a very large number of
files. Our application's Help directory contains about 1500 files (html,
gif, etc). It seems the only way to get these files installed is to list
them explicitly (with some help from Heat). It also appears that it is
suggested to make each file a component.
Explicitly dealing with 1500 files and their component GUIDs seems
likely to have a very low ROI for the programmer and company. I'm sure
my clients would rather have me crank out a few useful features in the
application than spend countless hours on all those individual entries.
Perhaps if you have a million clients, then dealing with all those files
individually makes sense, but with 100, 1000 or 10,000 clients, the
cost-benefit ratio doesn't look very good.
So...is there any way to do something like this:
<Files Id="helpfiles" Source="C:\MyApp\Help\*.*" />
...or any other approach to make this problem manageable? It seems like
a very standard feature with other installer technologies.
Thanks,
-Allan
Allan Bommer, P.E.
Chief Design Engineer, Structural Concrete Products
The Bentley Structural Team
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ph: 206-783-9556
fax: 610-458-1060
www.Bentley.com/Structural
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