[wpkg-users] expand variables in debug output?

[Joe]

Rainer Meier wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> Joe wrote:
>> Is there any way to expand variables in the debug output?
> 
> No, this is not planned yet. However I made a note here locally that I 
> could identify some of the debug messages where this could be helpful. 
> Doing it in all debug messages has two major drawbacks:
> - Some debug messages should not be expanded
> - Expanding all messages is a waste of resources
> 
> So I prefer to pick a few debug messages where the variables could 
> probably be printed after expanding as well (printing the variable name 
> and somehow its value in braces). But again, I don't want to do that for 
> all messages.
> 
> br,
> Rainer
> 


Maybe expanding could be an command line option?   At any rate, the
reason I asked was that I had a situation where I set:

set SOFTWARE=%WPKGROOT%\Programs\

Then in some packages...

<install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\thunderbird\Thunderbird Setup 2.0.0.14.exe" -ms' />
<install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\firefox\Firefox Setup 2.0.0.14.exe" -ms' />
<install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\PDFCreator\PDFCreator-0_9_5_setup.exe" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SP-' />

These somehow all installed correctly with the trailing slash on SOFTWARE.

The next would not install and I could not figure out why...

<install cmd='msiexec /qn /i %SOFTWARE%\OpenOffice\openofficeorg24.msi' />

I had a 1619 error but could not understand the problem since the prior
three packages worked.  I finally created a package to dump the environment
vars to a file and then noticed my mistake.  I still don't understand why it
worked for the first three.