hi, I'm building an MSI package using WiX for an application consisting of about 20000 files in 1800 folders, total of ~500MB uncompressed. It's built as a single feature, with component per each folder. Installer's single task is to copy all the files, there's no DLLs to register, etc.
Ready MSI takes about 10minutes to install and over 20minutes to uninstall. Compared to ZIP package, unzipping it takes 4,5min and removing is below 2minutes. So MSI is quite long IMHO, which makes me wonder what contributes to this times and how they could be optimized. Do you know what extra does the installer do, that takes so much time? And does it make any change if I e.g. split it to more features, or more components. We're not making the full use of such MSI features as update so maybe we could sacrifice something for better install times? Jacek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
