My initial guess is that your assembly's versions are changing between builds.
I'm very interested in a proposed approach to this as we have a build that results in changed versions on every build. I haven't personally investigated an approach to handle this yet. I haven't had the time yet to do it. Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Digital Channels Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > -----Original Message----- > From: john.burak [mailto:john.bu...@telvent.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:00 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Patch building with Torch, all .NET assemblies "changed" > > We recently implemented patch building using Torch/Pyro. We are keeping > the old MSI and totally rebuilding a new one for Torch to diff with. The > problem is that Torch sees all of our .NET assemblies as changed even though > the source code only changed in a few. We did some digging and it turns out > that if we recompile an assembly with the same source code, the binary result > (DLL or EXE) is different from the first build. Perhaps it's putting a date > stamp > inside. Our guess is that Torch is doing a binary comparison and sees the > file as > changed. We need a patch with only the few files who's source code has > changed. > > So the question is, how do people handle this situation? We could try to > change > our build process so that we don't rebuild every project the second time (let > MSBuild pick just the changed ones), but then we won't get "clean" > builds and we won't detect circular references between assemblies (developers > sometimes accidentally do that). We can limit the impact by doing a non-clean > build for only the patch. This may be the only option, but I wanted to get > some > opinions first. Maybe there is something I'm missing here. > > Thanks for your input! > > - John > > -- > View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix- > toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Patch-building-with-Torch-all-NET-assemblies- > changed-tp7227881p7227881.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is > just > $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style > Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
