Well, I /finally/ figured out how to write a BinderFileManager extension. That needs better (i.e. "some" :) ) documentation. The one example for PreProcessorExtensions in the docs don't tell you how to work with *other* types of extensions.
Thanks anyway 2009/6/23 John Ludlow <john.ludlow...@gmail.com>: > Hey, all > > I'm evaluating Wix v3.0 to see if we should adopt it, and run into a > snag. The problem is that in wix v2 we run light with -v and it > chucked out a lot of "Cabbing file xxx from yyy" style messages. > However, in Wix v3 they seem to have disappeared. Looking through > the code, it seems that no special logging takes place when a file is > cabbed anymore. > > I can understand why they might have been removed - there were a lot > of them after all. But we actually use those messages - part of our > validation process uses this to work out what files are /actually/ > shipped. This process is in its own build and usually runs once a > week. > > What's the best way of getting this information? As far as I can see, > these are my options: > > > * Parse the .wxs. However this gives me the variable-based path > for the file, which I then have to do a string-replace on (since it's > a different build I don't have actual access to the original values). > In addition, if someone adds a new file path based on a different > variable it impacts a part of the script that shouldn't affect at all. > > > * If the worst comes to the worst, I can always modify light.exe > to emit to the console, but it would be nicer if I didn't have to do > that. > > > Any other ideas? Ideally, if I could run light and have it produce an > xml file (or just a flat list in a file, or just dump them to STDOUT) > of all the files that would be included included full, absolute paths, > that would be perfect. I was half-expecting the wixout switch to do > this... > > Thanks > > John > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
