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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Eric Schultz <wwahammy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In my experience with simple MSIs that I've zipped, you don't gain very much
> since the actual files are already compressed. I think custom actions are
> uncompressed so to the best of my knowledge that'd be the largest
> non-compressed portion of the MSI. In our case though, we have a single
> custom action DLL that is designed to be small to start off with. If we
> added another custom action DLL to decompress the other we'd probably just
> offset any savings we'd gain.

I was wondering about MSI in general, not just about our use case.

Olaf