Hi Simon, Please make sure that you are using a nightly build of NAntContrib. You'll need to also use a relatively new nightly build of NAnt to build the NAntContrib tasks. The msi/msm task schema changed between 0.84 and the current builds, giving you the error that you see.
Otherwise, you could try using a previous version of the file. I believe that version 3 works with the 0.84 msi task schema. Available here: http://nant.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/sample%20build%20file?version=3 As for merge modules... think of them as a storage mechanism to share common install information. For example, you could build a merge module containing just the NAnt bin files. Then, for each msi that you create, you could just merge the (merge module) file into each msi. That way, you don't have to specify the (for this example) NAnt bin files for each msi. They would automatically be added to the install via the merge process. Convenient if you wanted to add an NAnt subfolder (containing a known set/version of files) to one or many installs. Another example is that your company could have a common way to setup a database... It could involve custom dialog(s) to specify server, user, and password. It would also use a custom action to modify the database. Rather than always creating custom actions and dialogs, for each install, you could separate that logic into merge modules. So, for this example, you could create a merge module that contains the dialogs. You could also create a merge module that handles the custom action logic. For each product install that your company creates, you would then just add those merge modules to the install. That way, each install would maintain exactly the same logic. It would also allow you to easily omit the dialog(s) from the install if, for that particular install, the database setup was to be automatic without user interaction. More information here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/m erge_module_database.asp Hope that helps Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nant-users] MSI-Task Hi All I'm trying to use the sample 'VDirSample.build' to generate an msi for a website depoyment, but I'm getting the following error: ".... Target(s) specified: msi msi: BUILD FAILED Validation Error: Element 'NAnt.Contrib.Tasks.MSITask:msi' has invalid child element 'NAnt.Contrib.Tasks.MSITask:features'. An error occurred at (219, 4). Total time: 2.2 seconds. ..." ...as you can see it seems to be suggesting that 'features' is not a valid child of 'msi', any ideas? Also I'm not quite sure where merge modules come into the equation. The sample build file uses 'components', is this the equivalent to merge modules. If say you needed to develop one msi that installed one more than one web site, would you hav an msi for each site and then some kind of toplevel controlling msi? many thanks Simon Burgess ______________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This communication and the information it contains is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. Its contents are confidential and may be protected in law. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us immediately. The contents of any attachments in this e-mail may contain software viruses, which could damage your own computer system. While Marlborough Stirling has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise this risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage, which you sustain as a result of software viruses. You should carry out your own virus checking procedure before opening any attachment. Marlborough Stirling plc, Registered in England and Wales Registered No. 3008820, Allen Jones House, Jessop Avenue, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3SH Tel: 01242 547000 Fax: 01242 547100 http://www.marlborough-stirling.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
