We are using a Cab Builder project in VS2008 to generate our CF cab files. This works well until we make changes that affect the dependencies. The Cab Builder project decides we need all sorts of additional libraries (mscorlib, etc.) that we don’t need to actually deploy in our cab. We select the libraries and explicitly exclude them and commit the changes to svn — when the build server gets the latest of the project and builds it the rogue libraries are back. We have to actually open the cab project on the build server and (again) manually exclude the libraries we don’t want to include.
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Is this normal behavior for the cab builder?
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Is there a work around?
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Will we have less pain if we give up and generate our .inf files with a different method and run the exe on the build server to generate the cabs instead of using the project?
Thank you
Ah, the CAB deployment project. I swear that thing was an afterthought and tasked out to a couple interns to develop. It’s absolute garbage for anything but the most simplistic packaging scenarios.
What we do is we hand roll the INF and then call cabwiz manually. I’ve done this with the aid of MSBUILD to make automation pretty simple.