[wix-devs] Support for -shardlinks?

[Heath Stewart]

Hmm. Maybe that came after Rob left then. Bob, you remember anything?

Regardless, not quite, Sean. Same idea, though. Light will create hard links, but some people don't want that. The MSBuild property just effects the built-in Copy task, so this would be similar. Maybe even have a property that could set both together (I'd almost suggest using that one, except for the "CopyFiles" seeming a bit task-specific...but don't care all that much otherwise).

Heath Stewart
Visual Studio, Microsoft
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From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Sean Hall
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Subject: Re: [wix-devs] Support for -shardlinks?

wix4 has an msbuild
property CreateHardLinksForCopyFilesToOutputDirectoryIfPossible - https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fgithub.com%2fwixtoolset%2fwix4%2fblob%2fdevelop%2fsrc%2ftools%2fWixTasks%2fwix.targets%23L1172&data=02%7c01%7cHeath.Stewart%40microsoft.com%7cf9202e32f5a747a07c1c08d3e331ca4c%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1%7c0%7c636101775398328833&sdata=%2bcv1R6FZTooAd8Qs%2bnGl%2b4X4ZTihVQaS7eYGq%2bMfE3I%3d.
Does that accomplish the same thing?

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> Never heard of that switch before.
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> I got a request for a bug fix on the internal 3.7 repo today about 
> -shardlinks and noticed no history for it - at least in the GitHub 
> repos. I seem to recall it was around internally for quite a while. 
> Was it removed from the old CodePlex repos, or just never added 
> externally? Any desire for a port to wix4 (or even wix3)?
>
> (Background: -shardlinks is used to suppress creating hardlinks - a 
> request from some build labs for reasons I don't remember...perhaps to 
> avoid trying at all when the output directory is on another volume or
> something.)
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