I have some folders with localized html documentation, each folder contains
many files, and they are not vital for my application, I harvest the folder
using heat to build the wxs and then the msi.The installation of these folders
is very very slow as heat doesn't order the files based on directory and the
setup when during install will change the current directory for each file to
install, and every file is marked as keypath.
To speed up installation process I'd like to add the zipped folders to my msi
and then unzip them with a custom action, is there any build in system for
doing this with WiX, using an extension for example? I need to add each
localized folder inside a different msiFeature and then I need to run the
custom action when the feature is selected to be installed (and removed on
uninstall removeing all the folder).
Apart of the speedup of the installation process, I have a problem with some
folders that I can't harvest using heat as the full path of files with relative
folders tree exceed the max limit of characters that can be passed to heat.exe
as command args for the path of the folder to harvest, and in this case using
the zipped folders to be unzipped from the msi during installation will be the
only choice.
Which is the best way for doing this?
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