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Nothing major, I just want to get a reaction from a few people here.

One of the abilities in an Installer Image is that of breaking the files to be installed into Components. This is pretty much as it suggests, a collection of related files that the user has a choice of installing or ignoring.

However, when I was designing my structures first, I put each component inside a single BaseDirectory, that being the folder that the component is installed into. Each file is installed to a path relative to the base directory.

However, it has struck me that perhaps I should restructure this the other way around, make the Component the top level structure, and put the directories inside that.

What do you guys think?
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Each component should be totally path-agnostic; I should be able to put a file into an arbitrary path (absolute, relative, or relative to some variable like %system32%) from any component. Components should be only about grouping installed files, not about imposing file structure.

For instance: 
MAIN STUFF

%appinstall%/engine.exe

%appinstall%/data/graphics.dat

%appinstall%/data/sounds.dat

%system32%/graphicslibrary.dll



REALLY KICKASS AUDIO COMPONENT

%appinstall%/extrasound.dll

%appinstall%/data/moresounds.dat

%system32%/soundlibrary.dll
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I guess that makes a bit more sense alright.

This would be more along the lines of what I was thinking of, except where I have elements that represent the folders, you just leave them in the files path. I had move them up a level to allow for the possibility of applying attributes to the folder at a later date with the minimum of difficulty.
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