Re: [WiX-users] Installing Microsoft Enterprise Library's merge module with Wix

[Christopher P. <ch...@de...>]

Yup, this is yet another example of where merge modules get a bad rap because of how someone ( I won't mention the irony of who... )  uses them.   I almost never use 3rd party MSMs while I build hundreds of my own.
 
In the past we organized all the files from the enterprise ( there's 110+ if I recall ) into a series of merge modules to represent the various application blocks ( unity, logging, data access, et al ) and then created module dependencies between our assets and the blocks they required.   These were all then deployed privately to our application bin directory.
 
You could do the same thing with fragments.  We don't because we use InstallShield as our container instead of WiX.
 
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From: Bob Arnson <bo...@jo...>
To: wix...@li...
Sent: Monday, August 8, 2011 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing Microsoft Enterprise Library's merge module with Wix

On 08-Aug-11 12:30, Leigh Wetmore wrote:
> I used Orca to inspect the merge module, and all of the files are placed
> directly in TARGETDIR (whereas the other merge modules I use tend to have
> their files placed in a subfolder of TARGETDIR with Name="." - perhaps this
> is the difference).  Or perhaps there is some property I need to set that
> enterprise library expects - but that would be an enterprise library
> question, and when asked they directed me here :)

It's a bad merge module. It doesn't have a way of redirecting the files 
to your app directory and it breaks best practices by putting a bunch of 
PE files into a single component. Since there's no registration or 
sharing, you'll get better authoring using Heat.

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