My install Pack is about 600 MB in size, and there is no limitation in it's size. I'm using the MSZIP compression level, and it's ok for me. The only concern, is the time it takes to create the MSI file.
It takes over 90 minutes after the light is commanded to build the MSI. I know that this process of packing the files in the MSI cabinet is time consuming, But I'm looking forward to find hints to decrease this time. I've heard that putting the files in more than one cabinet can be helpful. Is that right? And how much does it help? Is there any other suggestion? Regards, Riyaz >> Chris Ridd wrote: >> Yes, the higher compression levels make building the msi much slower. >> If you've got the concept of a "debug" vs "release" build, I'd >> suggest >> using no compression when debugging, and high when doing a release. >> >> In the interest of science I ran through the compression levels on >> the .msi >> build of one of my programs. >> >> Compression Level > Time (seconds) > File Size (MB) >> none > 11 > 6.05 >> mszip > 11 > 2.25 (default) >> low > 11 > 1.91 >> medium > 12 > 1.81 >> high > 14 > 1.73 >> >> That's quite a space saving for a few seconds wait. >> Windows XP on an AMD running at 2.1 GHz. > > For comparison, some totals for building multiple packages here: > > High > 478 seconds > 83MB > Low > 461 seconds > 100MB > > The main slowness is because I'm running in a VM running 2003 server. > The times are closer than I thought, but either way I'm getting lots > Of coffee breaks ;-) > > Cheers, > > Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
