Many of our companies' products are localized into several languages. To build the an installer to handle this, we first build a "neutral" MSI, then for each culture, we build an MSI, then use msitran to build a transform, and finally msidb to merge the transform back to the neutral MSI. This works, but it's really slow because of all the file copying and cabinet building. The fileset is the same for all cultures, so it would be really handy if there were a way to tell light to not build the cabinet file (after the first one). There is a -reusecab option, but it's still pretty slow (I think due to a lot of file copying), and it sometimes crashes on large filesets.
The approach we are exploring is to use the XML format (-xo option to light), then use the torch tool to build the transform from that. While this is great from a speed point of view, I don't see a way of getting from the XML format back to MSI/MST. Am I missing something, or has that simply not been implemented to date? James Fairweather Lead developer and support engineer Core Team 604.456.3911 (x13911) <http://eatech.ea.com/>
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