IOException when building from file share about issues

[murphyjawow]

Hi Bob, I'm sorry for the miscommunication. I should've stated in the original post that I only encounter this issue with the Custom Action builds.

[barnson]

If you're getting failures in a package (not custom action) build, please attach a binlog.

[chrpai]

This is a very unusual arrangement. The performance, concurrency and availability issues hurts my head.

Could you use something like robocopy /mir to mirror the files locally and do the build?

[murphyjawow]

It would be possible to do the build locally and then transfer the products of the build back to the share, but it would be cumbersome and inconsistent with our other build processes, given that all of our other projects reside and are built on the share.

[chrpai]

I haven't seen that pattern since the 1990s. I'd say 99% of the world uses some sort of source control system (typically Git) and a CI/CD system that stores the built artifact in some sort of artifact repository. Now you could set up automation to mirror the source and the artifacts to the sites but to use this DFS share they way you are using it... well I'd be lobbying for big change. I've been a CM lead for many companies huge and small over the years fwiw.

That's all I'll say on this subject. If this is something WiX can fix, great. But I wouldn't really expect any windows process, especially a heavy IO build process, to work flawlessly against a network share. Networks just aren't that reliable to be honest.