1. Don't do it - in the long run it will bite you. 2. Take a look at Inno Setup. 3. If you stay with WiX try using the Heat tool to create the XML, on simple installs it does a pretty good job.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Martin Sustrik [mailto:sust...@fastmq.com] Sent: 03 February 2009 20:03 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Very Simple Installer :( Any other tool that would be basically simple zip/unzip + add a nice windowsey GUI to the install? Martin Chad Petersen wrote: > V2 is the same as v3 in this regard. No built-in support for wildcard > inclusion of files. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Sustrik [mailto:sust...@fastmq.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:47 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Very Simple Installer > > Thanks David, > > What about using v2? Can you point me to the place to look for the > feature? > > Martin > > David Reed wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that there used to be, Martin, but I don't see it in > v3; IIRC, wildcard support was explicitly dropped "by design". >> If you figure it out and I missed it somewhere, LMK! We wrote a custom > MSBuild task to rip through a directory tree and write out include files > for WiX to do this. It's on out CodePlex now in our root project, but > that reminds me that I've been meaning to contribute it to the MSBuild > community tasks project... >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martin Sustrik [mailto:sust...@fastmq.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:25 >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [WiX-users] Very Simple Installer >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a directory tree I want to install at a user-specified > location. >> It's as simple as that... however, I don't want to manage large xml >> definition file with an entry for each file to be packaged. >> >> Is there a way to do that with WiX? >> >> Thanks. >> Martin >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ >> Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) >> software. 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