Understood. FWIW, I used to maintain dozens of installers each with hundreds of features and tens of thousands of files. When it was all done in InstallShield it was next to impossible to maintain entropy with regards to ICE validation errors. Factoring all of that out into hundreds of WiX merge modules spread out across dozens of service families and enforcing a policy of MSM validation really helped to eat that elephant one bite at a time.
Believe it or not we actually ended up with very large and complex MSI's built in InstallShield that passed all validation tests. Thanks to the "WiX Inside" design. <Intel Bing Bing Bing Bing!/> ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:52 AM To: chr...@iswix.com, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 performance True, but to get an apples to apples comparison between v2.0 and v3.x, you need to turn off validation. Once we confirm that validation is the performance difference all is well in the world. Otherwise, we maybe should be hunting a perf bug in WiX v3.6. PS: There are some other features in WiX v3.x that might take a touch more time like smartcab'ing but I don't expect that accounts for the differences seen. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com> wrote: Don't do it!!! I love the fact that validation is enabled by default!! Get faster hardware.... <smile/> ---------------------------------------- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@robmensching.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:16 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.5 performance WiX v3.x we turned on validation by default. That can be very slow. The "-sval" switch will disable it to get a more apples-to-apples comparison. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Andrew J. Dalgleish < adalgle...@santanderconsumerusa.com> wrote: > I have a question regarding performance, as we move from an earlier > version of wix 2.0.5325.0 to the current stable build. > A little background on how we use wix: > We start with a very simple xml file, which contains only the essential > things that define what goes in the msi. > Here is what a website setup project looks like: > > OurWebSite.wixml > > <install SetupProjectName="OurWebSite" > ProductCode="343e0bea-7f2e-4513-b420-9f57b321aa73" ProductName="Our Web > Site"> > <source path="Web Sites\Our Web Site"> > <exclude pattern="\.cs$"/> > <exclude pattern="\.csproj$"/> > ... > </source> > </install> > > After our build is complete, another process reads all wixml files and > foreach: > > merge a xsl template to generate valid wxs out file > then batch execute: > candle -out %1.wixobj %1.wxs > C:\WixLogs\%1.candle.out > light -out %1.msi %1.wixobj > C:\WixLogs\%1.light.out > > So that's our custom process - kudos to the wix team, we've built millions > of msi this way. > > We recently encountered a problem building a project targeted for the .net > framework 4.0. > So I decided to use a newer version of wix (3.5.2519.0) without changing > our process (although I had to update our wxs template to match the wix3 > schema). > Test builds yielded a working msi, but the time taken for msi generation > step is much longer. > I don't have an accurate comparison from the build box yet, but it usually > takes about 314s for all 200 msi. 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