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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ROFL!

"Fixed"? 

MSI files are actually Windows Structured Storage files (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa380369%28v=VS.85%29.aspx).

In order that older tools and OSes can read them, they really can't change the fundamentals of how the files are written and store data. I can't see them ever adding a compression layer on top of structured storage (they'll tell ya to compress it yourself before storing it).

Luckily, our MSIs won't have near as much stored in the uncompressed area as we don’t use a lot of the crap in Windows Installer, therefore CoApp MSIs shouldn't heavily suffer from this problem.

G


Garrett Serack | Open Source Software Developer | Microsoft Corporation 
I don't make the software you use; I make the software you use better on Windows.


-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf van der Spek [mailto:olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 11:01 AM
To: Garrett Serack
Cc: coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: MSI compression

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's important to note that content outside the embedded CAB files are not compressed (so any data/metadata in the MSI tables for example) and that it's probably compressing that pretty good (that data is often a lot of text, and should compress well).

When will this be fixed?

Olaf