I've got an installer that has to install several hundred files, and it seems to take a long time to compute the space requirements, especially on an upgrade.
During this phase, I see in a verbose log that there is a lot of work going on to just add a backslash to the end of all of the folder names being updated. There's a message like this in the log for each folder: MSI (c) (FC:1C) [13:25:08:257]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding dir892D072CCFBC52F1571AE901E4A5BC6F property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Our highest-level folder\some-lower-folder'. Then, almost immediately, there is this message following that: MSI (c) (FC:1C) [13:25:08:286]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying dir892D072CCFBC52F1571AE901E4A5BC6F property. Its current value is 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Our highest-level folder\some-lower-folder'. Its new value: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Our highest-level folder\some-lower-folder\'. The difference is that MSI added a backslash to this folder name. Is there some way to eliminate this extra work, and (even slightly) reduce the amount of time this takes? One cannot add a backslash to the "name=" attribute of the directory ID specification - tried that. Anyone have any suggestions? Or any suggestions in general to improve this performance? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/computing-space-requirements-takes-a-long-time-tp6634392p6634392.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
