[wix-devs] NuGetable Build, Extensions, and Libraries

Thu Aug 20 13:37:02 PDT 2015

I remembered the discussion.  But I think if you pulled up the commit in
GitHub, it has the pull request number at the top.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Heath Stewart <Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com>
wrote:

> Thanks. Did you remember having that discussion or is there some way to
> look up PRs associated to commits in GH?
>
> Heath Stewart
> Visual Studio, Microsoft
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> Is the pull request you're talking about
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> There was some discussion on the .targets file there.
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Heath Stewart <
> Heath.Stewart at microsoft.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Rob, I see you committed these. Was that the idea: to support Team
> > Build-style builds (i.e. non-interactive enviroments)? I see that the
> > wix.targets doesn't get imported directly, but I can fix that up or
> > was there some specific reason you didn't?
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> > I do that already with my "bastardized" NuGet packages for my
> > installers--chiefly to carry around wixlibs for my custom actions and
> > my UI, and to install targets for signing.
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> > We're looking to make some investments in a Team Build-friendly system
> > using NuGet packages both for WiX extensions, libraries, and even the
> > build itself. I talked with the NuGet project manager here and we
> > discussed some short-term and long-term options, as summarized below:
> >
> >
> > 1.      Short term: using .targets files to deploy content
> >
> > a.      NuGet packages will include \build\{package-id}.targets files.
> >
> > b.      Those files will reference any wixlib in a \wix top-level folder
> > (we should not place under \lib just yet - more on that for the
> > long-term
> > solution) with item type <WixLibrary>
> >
> > c.      Those files will reference any DLL in a \wix top-level folder
> with
> > item type <WixExtension>
> >
> > 2.      Long term: process content (probably in something like \lib\wix)
> > similar to reference assemblies.
> >
> > a.      Needs to be detailed and discussed with the NuGet team at a
> future
> > date when they have some more time.
> >
> > I've started prototyping those changes and can get a feature and WIP
> > started soon, but we also want to NuGet-ize build. I see in wix4
> > someone already got a start and I could break out the extensions as
> > needed if there's no objections. But I wanted to verify the intent was
> > that a wixproj would contain the typical NuGet.targets and reference
> > these packages, such that "nuget restore" pulls down the toolset and
> > wixproj files just build without even installing WiX.
> >
> > We do plan to move to wix4 but have a couple steps to get there across
> > the division, so is there any objection to me NuGet-izing build for wix3
> (i.e.
> > 3.11) in a similar fashion?
> >
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