Thank you all for your suggestions. What ended up working for me was
changing compressed='no' to compressed='yes' in the Package. I had it as
no, I guess, because the template I used had it as no.
On 9/26/07, Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, at 09:22AM, "János Brezniczky" <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >2007/9/26, Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 25 Sep 2007, at 23:39, János Brezniczky wrote:
> >>
> >> > I would just add that it's easier to set Compressed="yes" on the
> >> > Package instead of setting it on each individual File element. (I
> >> > use WiX 2)
> >>
> >> But does it also apply to merged in modules? We're merging in one of
> >> the runtime modules for VS2005, and I noticed it bulked things up
> >> quite a bit.
> >
> >
> >I think so. As far as I experienced, the compression level specified in
> >the Media element greatly affects the increase in the size of the MSI
> when a
> >merge module is appended to the project.
>
> I hadn't noticed CompressionLevel until Rob's mail just, and it *does*
> make a nice difference: it shaved a total of 13MB (about 20%) off my MSI
> files.
>
> Great stuff :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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