Matt, Heat is the tool for WiX V3, and will probably continue to be developed. Tallow is the V2 equivalent, and should be supported for some time to come but will probably not be enhanced further.
Be very careful of using Heat (or Tallow) to automatically generate your installation files. In fact, given your requirements you may be better off looking at an alternate distribution mechanism. Why is this? Well right now Tallow and Heat are both missing the "brains" that are necessary to ensure that Windows Installer component rules are not broken - especially in update and repair type scenarios. This is intentional. They are not intended to be used to repeatedly generate installation authoring (although some people are using them that way), instead they are designed to do a large portion of the "grunt work" associated with generating the initial installation authoring in the same was as (for example) Visual Studio templates. (See http://installing.blogspot.com/2006/04/heatexe-making-setup-easier.html for the initial announcement regarding Heat.) In the fullness of time, it is possible (if not likely, given the demand for it) that someone will implement the "Component Catalog" functionality to turn Heat into what you (and many others) need. Until then, I would recommend you proceed with extreme caution! Regards, Richard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:24 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Hello and a few question about some of the tools (tallow, heat and clickthru) Hello to all in the group, I'm looking at using WiX to create MSIs for deploying binaries, web content and anything else we need to. There's nothing complex, just take the files created by the build and package them so they can be easily deployed to servers. The install is a glorified xcopy really, MSIs offer the ability to know exactly what we have on a system other than that we don't use the other functionality. The user doesn't face any choice when installing. [Remainder of message snipped] * C O N F I D E N T I A L I T Y N O T I C E * ----------------------------------------------------------- The content of this e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this communication in error, be aware that forwarding it, copying it, or in any way disclosing its content to any other person, is strictly prohibited. Quixote Traffic Corporation is neither liable for the contents, nor for the proper, complete and timely transmission of (the information contained in) this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail immediately and delete the material from any computer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
