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[Eric Schultz <wwahammy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah. Well I know WiX compresses .NET custom actions with any referenced
assemblies needed by the action. There's some custom action that they use to
handle that I'm sure.

Eric

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>