Walkthrough Step 6 - best practice?

Hi there,

I'm currently testing wyBuild. Everything seems well documented and thought trough. Thanks for that!

However, there is one step I'm not sure about. When it comes to step 6 in the walkthrough it says I need to create a folder which contains all the files (in my case for the "your program's folder") of the new version. I'm not sure if I'm having a weird workflow here, but it is the job of my setup project (which creates the .msi) to collect all those files from different places (e.g. a certain folder structure with 3rd party dependencies) and put them together. In other words, these files are all over the place until the installer is created. If I'm getting it right, wyUpdate asks me to redundantly bring these files together manually before it's done again by my setup project....that seems very tedious and error-prone.

How is this thought to be done nicely?

Thanks for any input!

The reason it's recommended to create a folder where all the files will reside is 2-fold:

1. To tell you that you need to actually keep these files around if you want to make patches. (wyBuild needs previous versions of you app to generate the patch files: https://wyday.com/wybuild/help/faq.php#how-it-works );

2. To tell you that these are the "canonical" files for that version.

Basically, wyBuild is forcing your to keep track of your files.