Hi All, I'm trying to understand how WiX can be integrated in to a typical development / build environment such that keeping the installer up to date becomes a minimal effort and maintained by the developers. This at least is what I understood is one of the goals of people who use WiX.
My initial thinking was that the installer build would be just another step that would get run in the build. For example if an additional manual page was added to a doc tree this would automatically get picked up and included in the installer. If developers needed to add a new registry key for a component then they would modify that component's .wxs fragement and voila the next build would create it. My main challenge so far seems to be the creation of components fragments which cover file assets, I've seen a number of tallow post processors to make some of this possible but am not clear what is the correct approach. Running tallow say on a Document directory will create a fragment file each time. Should the post processor generate new GUID's for components in there each time? or should I reuse GUID for components which have not changed (no new files)? Before I go and write another one of these I'm just wondering were the project is going with this element ... does 3.0 cover this aspect better then 2.0? Is there a requiremnts doc for tallow++ which one could look at to understand all the complexities of such a tool (which being a newbie I'm no doubt missing)? My "WiX Bible" so to speak has been the 2.0 turorial at "http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/index.php#TOC";. My apologies in advance if I have missed posts or further docs which explain this. thanks in advance for your help. kind regards, Kaveh. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/WiX-integration-in-to-dev-env-%28tallow-...%29-tf4344917.html#a12378485 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
