I once observed that adding Infragistics to an ASP.NET project added about 5,500 files to the installer. These were resources like below that would probably never change.
I always wished there was a pattern where you could drop an uncompressed archive into windows / iis and have it virtualized as the actual file paths. If the archive could also have a version number that would solve a lot of these servicing strategy problems. I once interviewed for a company that told me they had about 250,000 files ( 30GB ) in their install. It would have been an interesting project to work on but in the end another company made me a better offer. Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: James Johnston <johnst...@inn-soft.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 9:39:06 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] packaging large number of files I was also immediately concerned with the serviceability ramifications as outlined by Rob below. What kind of files are being installed? With some applications there might not be much you can do about it. But for other applications, you can do a lot. For example, the video game industry will compile the thousands of constant, non-changing assets (textures, sounds, etc.) into a small number of files so that the installer and the computer's file system don't have to deal with so many files. James -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 07:53 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] packaging large number of files No, nothing in the Windows Installer supports that sort of scenario. Not exactly sure what that would accomplish anyway. How would you patch or update such files? Presumably you'd have to list them with the Windows Installer somehow and that would get you right back where you are. Now, it would be nice if the Windows Installer installed files faster than it does... but that isn't something we can really fix in the WiX toolset. On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Sanjay Rao <s...@noida.interrasystems.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > Our software has to install a large number(more than 50,000) of files > at target machine and We followed one component per file strategy(as > recommended by WIX and MSI). While doing major upgrades it consumes a > lot of time(sometimes 30 minutes) on some of the screens. > > I want to compress some folders (holding larger number of files 25000) > and make a single file and then include the compresses file into msi > installer. After installer finishes, I want to decompress this > compressed file. > My questions is : > Is there any way in WIX to decompress the file after installation > completes ? > > Regards, > Sanjay Rao > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
