I just ran into bug 3914 today at work (http://wixtoolset.org/issues/3914/ -
!(bind.packageVersion.PackageID) isn't expanded in bundle). I'll fix that bug,
and that should give me an idea about what enumerating all of the packages
would entail. It sounds like that would be the cleanest way for the setup
developer. Although bind.msiPackageProperty.packageId[propertyName] seems like
an intuitive new syntax.
From: r...@robmensching.com
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:13:32 +0000
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Binder variables for MSI properties in a bundle
If we create a new syntax, we should consider how it fits with other bind
properties. I’m inclined not to add a new syntax (there are already too many
magical
characters in !(bind.) variables). Enumerating all of the package names should
be possible, so it shouldn’t be horrible to compare the start of the string
after “msiPackageProperty” with package names.
Or something like that. Better to do a bit of hard work in toolset than expose
even more complex syntax to users.
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:29 PM
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Binder variables for MSI properties in a bundle
On 02-Feb-14 23:56, Sean wrote:
It seems like the tricky thing for implementing this will be how to deal with
the dots, like Bob put in the feature (http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4298/). As
far as I can tell, package Id's
have the same rules as MSI properties
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371245(v=vs.85).aspx). How about
!(bind.msiPackageProperty.packageId~propertyName), or some other
special character between the package Id and the property name?
We don't want it to look too much like Perl. :) We could probably do some
quoting, like with brackets or backticks.
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