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

Thu Aug 20 11:16:13 PDT 2015

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 https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fgithub.com%2fwixtoolset%2fwix4%2fpull%2f5%3f&data=01%7c01%7cHeath.Stewart%40microsoft.com%7c3b0cd7b89cd44b55ef5708d2a989aa01%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=r%2faM20qdy0uDC4YgW7343oyIvrlm6Twh6FjM%2b02QVnw%3d  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?
>
> Heath Stewart
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