You can’t skip CostFinalize, but if you don’t use the “built-in” Windows Installer UI, you can skip the “UI sequence” (by doing your UI outside of MSI, say in a bootstrapper).
Windows Installer is a declarative, transactional system, and it compares your desired state against the system’s current state in order to generate a “plan” of what needs to be reinstalled vs. what should be left alone as well as how to rollback from any application failures. That discovery time is what you are seeing, and is the “tax” from all the stability goodness that Windows Installer gives you. -Blair From: mailc...@163.com Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 3:21 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Hi all， I have a problem with wix. There are about 3000 files in my msi and it is about 500M. When I run it at first time, it is quickly. But if the program was already installed in the computer, when I run another msi (the same msi, but build again) it will spend too much time on the prepare dialog. It shows "Please wait while the setip wizard prepares to guide you through the installation. Computing space requirements. " and the "next" button is disabled. It is about more than one minute!! I get the setup log. It shows CostFinalize action spend about more than one minute to scan the files in the disk . The msi sdk said: "The CostFinalize action must be executed before starting any user interface sequence which allows the user to view or modify Feature table selections or directories." So, can i skip this step or CostFinalize action do not spend so much time?????? Thanks. Cyan mailc...@163.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
