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| Sat, 17 May 2014 15:14:18 +0900 | |
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WiX installer source files |
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The files in this folder are used by the thg-winbuild [1] package |
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building architecture to create a Mercurial MSI installer. These files |
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are versioned within the Mercurial source tree because the WXS files |
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must kept up to date with distribution changes within their branch. In |
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other words, the default branch WXS files are expected to diverge from |
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the stable branch WXS files. Storing them within the same repository is |
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the only sane way to keep the source tree and the installer in sync. |
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The MSI installer builder uses only the mercurial.ini file from the |
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contrib/win32 folder, the contents of which have been historically used |
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to create an InnoSetup based installer. The rest of the files there are |
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The MSI packages built by thg-winbuild require elevated (admin) |
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privileges to be installed due to the installation of MSVC CRT libraries |
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To build your own MSI packages, clone the thg-winbuild [1] repository |
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and follow the README.txt [2] instructions closely. There are fewer |
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prerequisites for a WiX [3] installer than an InnoSetup installer, but |
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they are more specific. |
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[1] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild |
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[2] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/src/tip/README.txt |
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[3] http://wix.sourceforge.net/ |