I have a Burn bundle with three MSI packages. The deps package has 100 files adding up to 70MB (uncompressed; the compressed size is 20MB). The icons package has 6848 tiny files(!) adding up to 35MB. The application package has merely 10 files adding up to 4MB. The bundle is using the standard BA.
Burn reasonably thinks that the deps package will take twice as long to install as the icons package, since its uncompressed/install size is twice as big. However, the icons package is actually the slowest, due to having to write lots of tiny files, the filesystem metadata, and the Windows Installer component information (I have one file per component, so that's 6800 components). Therefore, the progress bar moves to 64% fairly quickly and then feels stuck for a few seconds. The installation timestamps go like this: [2014-07-05T00:26:41]: Applying execute package: deps.msi, action: Install [2014-07-05T00:26:43]: Applied execute package: deps.msi, result: 0x0 [2014-07-05T00:26:43]: Applying execute package: icons.msi, action: Install [2014-07-05T00:27:08]: Applied execute package: icons.msi, result: 0x0 [2014-07-05T00:27:08]: Applying execute package: app.msi, action: Install [2014-07-05T00:27:09]: Applied execute package: app.msi, result: 0x0 [2014-07-05T00:27:09]: Apply complete, result: 0x0 Uninstallation is even worse, removing icons.msi takes almost a minute: [2014-07-05T00:34:12]: Applying execute package: app.msi, action: Uninstall [2014-07-05T00:34:12]: Applied execute package: app.msi, result: 0x0 [2014-07-05T00:34:12]: Applying execute package: icons.msi, action: Uninstall [2014-07-05T00:35:04]: Applied execute package: icons.msi, result: 0x0 [2014-07-05T00:35:04]: Applying execute package: deps.msi, action: Uninstall [2014-07-05T00:35:05]: Applied execute package: deps.msi, result: 0x0 [2014-07-05T00:35:05]: Apply complete, result: 0x0 Is it possible, without a custom BA (I don't want to go in that direction *yet*), for me to set the "cost" of each package manually so that the progress bar is more proportional to the time taken? In addition, is there anything I can do to make the icons.msi uninstallation faster? -- Nicolás ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
