When you refer to anything in a fragment, the whole fragment is included. Your last idea was the right one: put each feature in its own fragment along with the resources that are specific to that feature. Put the shared components into their own fragment. Feature A and feature B should both refer to the shared components.
When you refer to feature B you will get the feature, the resources specific to the feature and the resources in the shared fragment, but you won't get feature A because nothing is referring to its fragment. -----Original Message----- From: Elanius [mailto:elani...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 September 2011 06:34 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Don't link not referenced features Hi Could anybody help me with fragments and features. I'm working on big wix project with lot of fragments. Idea was that I make libraries for everything what can be shared between our installers and then just by references compose what I need. Everything goes fine until now. I created fragment (wixlib) Where I have 2 features. But in one of final installers I need only one. But when I make reference to one of these features then both are linked into final installer. Second feature which I didn't referenced is without parent but it is there. Look at this example *.wixlib* <Fragment> ... <Feature Id="Feature_A" Level="1" Title="!(loc.Feature_A_Title)" Description="!(loc.Feature_A_Description)" Display="collapse"> <ComponentGroupRef Id="FilesCG"/> <ComponentGroupRef Id="RegsCG"/> <ComponentGroupRef Id="LangCG"/> <ComponentGroupRef Id="DriversCG"/> <ComponentGroupRef Id="ModuleCG"/> </Feature> <Feature Id="Feature_B" Level="1" Title="!(loc.Feature_B_Title)" Description="!(loc.Feature_B_Description)" Display="collapse"> <ComponentGroupRef Id="FilesCG"/> <ComponentGroupRef Id="RegsCG"/> <ComponentGroupRef Id="LangCG"/> </Feature> </Fragment> *installer* <Product> ... <Feature Id="MainFeature" Level="1" Title="!(loc.MainFeature_Title)" Description="!(loc.MainFeature_Description)" Display="expand"> <FeatureRef Id="Feature_B" /> </Feature> </Product> So when I make now build of installer I get installer with both features Feature_B and also Feature_A. But Feature_A is without parent because I didn't referenced it. So I hoped that if some feature form wixlib is not referenced that it wont by included into final installer. Is there any way how can be this Feature_A excluded from linking into final installer. Or is whole my approach wrong? I also though that I put one of them into another fragment (wixlib) but these features has shared components so I didn't know if it helped something. Thanks for any reply. elanius. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved. If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us. SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207. Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
