Hi, Glad you like Paraffin. :)
What you're asking to do is extremely hard, if not impossible, to accomplish with windows installer. Paraffin was designed for the case where the base files are stable and you're adding files to the installation. If you have such radical changes in files, you may want to do is always go the major upgrade route and schedule an uninstall of the previous version. That way you don't have to worry about the individual files changing. The always brilliant Bob Arnson write about this here: http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/30/paying-for-upgrades/ Hope it helps! John Wintellect http://www.wintellect.com 877-968-5528 >-----Original Message----- >From: Tabmow [mailto:tabmo...@gmail.com] >Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:16 AM >To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [WiX-users] Question about including large number of "modified" >files... > > >Hi all, > I'm new to wix, and have looked at the tutorial at tramonta and >searched >around various places, but the answer to this isn't immediately obvious >to >me, so I was hoping someone could help shed some light on it. > >Our installer will be installing 3 large directories. Two of them are >completely static 3rd party stuff that will not change at all for the >release. However, the third directory is our main product build >output, so >that changes weekly. My question is: how do people deal with >situations >like this? I've looked at tallow & paraffin, and looks like I can use >them >(paraffin looks very nice) to build up my lists for inclusion in wxs >file >which will work perfect for 2 of the 3 directories & files. However, >the >third directory will change every week and there could be new files, >files >deleted, new directories, etc. Since all the stuff on tallow/paraffin >i >could see does not recommend re-running them on every build (so as not >to >have all new GUIDs and break component rules), I could run paraffin once >and >then every other build of my installer i could just do a paraffin - >update... >But then if new files get added one week, the next week -update would >give >them a different GUID unless I had some way of knowing when the new >files >were changed and to save that change. Asking designers to inform us of >file additions/removals is not feasible - ~100 designers. > >So for that one directory that *could* change frequently, I could just >store >it as a zip file (this is what gets created by as a build artifact >anyway) >in the MSI and unzip it, couldn't I? Although lots of responses >towards >people asking questions about using Wix to handle zip files are very >negative towards using zip files... so how are people handling >situations >like this? I would have assumed this was a common problem? > >I hope my point/question makes some sense. I would appreciate any >help/suggestions/comments anyone has. > >Thanks! > >-- >View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Question-about- >including-large-number-of-%22modified%22-files...-tp2385558p2385558.html >Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >------ >Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San >Francisco, CA >-OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the >Enterprise >-Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source >participation >-Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: >SFAD >http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >_______________________________________________ >WiX-users mailing list >WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
