Experiment: Make generating wxs completely deterministic with WiX v5 …

…`naked files` feature

See [1]

[1] https://wixtoolset.org/docs/fivefour/#naked-files

install/windows/build-wxs.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 import os
-import uuid
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
 
@@ -13,10 +12,9 @@ def build_data(base_path, path_prefix, dir_id, dir_name):
     }
 
     if dir_id == "INSTALLFOLDER":
-        data["component_id"] = "ApplicationFiles"
+        data["componentgroup_id"] = "ApplicationFiles"
     else:
-        data["component_id"] = "Component" + dir_id
-    data["component_guid"] = str(uuid.uuid4()).upper()
+        data["componentgroup_id"] = "ComponentGroup" + dir_id
 
     for entry in os.listdir(base_path):
         entry_path = os.path.join(base_path, entry)
@@ -61,18 +59,27 @@ def build_directory_xml(root, data):
         build_directory_xml(directory_el, subdata)
 
 
-def build_components_xml(root, data):
+def build_componentgroup_xml(root, data):
     component_el = ET.SubElement(
         root,
-        "Component",
-        Id=data["component_id"],
-        Guid=data["component_guid"],
+        "ComponentGroup",
+        Id=data["componentgroup_id"],
         Directory=data["directory_id"],
     )
     for filename in data["files"]:
         ET.SubElement(component_el, "File", Source=filename)
     for subdata in data["dirs"]:
-        build_components_xml(root, subdata)
+        build_componentgroup_xml(root, subdata)
+
+
+def build_feature_xml(root, data):
+    ET.SubElement(
+        root,
+        "ComponentGroupRef",
+        Id=data["componentgroup_id"],
+    )
+    for subdata in data["dirs"]:
+        build_feature_xml(root, subdata)
 
 
 def main():
@@ -220,16 +227,12 @@ def main():
     # Generate the directory layout for the installed product
     build_directory_xml(programfilesfolder_el, data)
 
-    applicationcomponents_el = ET.SubElement(
-        package_el, "ComponentGroup", Id="ApplicationComponents"
-    )
-
     # Generate the components for the installed product
-    build_components_xml(applicationcomponents_el, data)
+    build_componentgroup_xml(package_el, data)
 
     # Add the Feature element
     feature_el = ET.SubElement(package_el, "Feature", Id="DefaultFeature", Level="1")
-    ET.SubElement(feature_el, "ComponentGroupRef", Id="ApplicationComponents")
+    build_feature_xml(feature_el, data)
     ET.SubElement(feature_el, "ComponentRef", Id="ApplicationShortcuts")
 
     ET.indent(wix_el, space="    ")