[cmake-developers] Improved WIX support

[Nils Gladitz]

On 19.07.2016 17:43, Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> in short:
>
> I fixed some minor issues with WIX toolset support and added the possibility to integrate service installation/uninstallation with generated msi packages. Please review and comment what is missing for integration in upstream.
>
> a bit longer:
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> When creating a component-based installer, the root component (or feature, as it is called in WIX context) cannot be named and described. This can now be done using CPACK_WIX_ROOT_COMPONENT_DISPLAY_NAME and CPACK_WIX_ROOT_COMPONENT_DESCRIPTION.
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> The install folder can only be set to a subfolder of ProgramFiles or ProgramFiles64. With the option CPACK_WIX_SKIP_PROGRAM_FOLDER it is now possible to set default installation paths on arbitrary locations such as "C:\myprogram". In order for this to work, the Guids of the WIX-Components must be explicitly set using CPACK_WIX_GENERATE_COMPONENT_GUIDS. Per default the Guids are auto generated using the value "*".
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> Disabling components by default using the CPACK_COMPONENT_<component_name>_DISABLED is now working.
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> With the install file properties CPACK_WIX_KEYPATH and CPACK_WIX_PROPERTY_<tagname> it is now possible to add custom tags (such as service handling) to the installer. If the custom tag depends on several files within the directory, bundling of several files in WIX-Components is needed. This can be done using CPACK_WIX_BUNDLE_COMPONENTS.
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> All new functionalities are documented and some small example snippets are added to the documentation.
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> I hope these changes make sense to you, if the documentation is not accurate enough or the naming of cmake properties/variables should be changed please let me know

Would you mind dividing these changes into feature sized patches that I 
can review, test and integrate individually?

Thanks!
Nils