Re: [WiX-devs] WiX v4.0 Default Compression Level?

[Chris D. <csd...@gm...>]

I, too, like the idea of defaulting to None for Debug builds and High for
Release builds. That seems consistent with the building of other project
types (such as C++), where Release builds often include additional
optimizations or other steps.

-Chris-

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:26 PM, John Cooper <JoC...@ja...> wrote:

>  I like the idea of “none” for debug—it also would make it easy to figure
> out which is which (by sheer size if nothing else).  Likewise, at least
> when the bundle is bound to the bootstrapper, maximum compression is best.
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> Probably also true for MSI’s and MSP’s that will be downloaded over the
> wire to bootstrappers.  Size matters.
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> *From:* Rob Mensching [mailto:ro...@fi...]
> *Sent:* Friday, October 17, 2014 1:27 PM
> *To:* WiX toolset developer mailing list
> *Subject:* [WiX-devs] WiX v4.0 Default Compression Level?
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> Bob and I are having a little conversation on a pull request about what
> the default compression level should be in the WiX toolset:
> https://github.com/robmen/wix4/commit/edf0a4cc32992d918846631fe7a2338bbf700c08#commitcomment-8206079
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> Historically, we used mszip which I **thought** was generally derided in
> this day and age in favor of LZX (low, medium, high). I’d be happy to be
> wrong about that.
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> My thinking was by default we should opt for the best compression. Of
> course, that means the slowest build times. There are reasonable was to
> control compression (WIX_COMPRESSION_LEVEL env var and –dcl switch) to
> override that, say to set it to “none” on build machines.  One thought is
> to set “-dcl” to “none” in Debug builds by default?
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> Anyway, I’m looking for suggestions? What do people think we should
> default the compression level to in WiX v4.0 (since we can change it now).
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> Thoughts?
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