[wix-users] Beginner wix question on packaging files

[Habib Salim]

I'm not a wix expert but from what little I know, this is not possible.

However, it appears that these text files are some sort of data files and
perhaps not critical to your application/installer.

One workaround I can think of is to package these text files into a zip
file and reference that zip file.
You can then add any number of files into your zip (or rar) archive and
unpack those file using a post install script or custom action.


-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf
Of Alan Sinclair
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 12:08 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] Beginner wix question on packaging files

Apologies if this is a very dumb question! I've worked with wix in the
past, coming back very rusty after being away from programming for several
years.

We have a sub-directory of a few text files which vary in name and number.
The files in that directory are all in one single component. Is there a
way to have wildcard in wix file naming, so that files added in the
sub-dir are automagically packaged? If possible we'd like to avoid
changing the wxs source when a file is added or removed.

(I know that one file per component is generally the recommended way to
go, hoping to sidestep in this case)

thanks
Al

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