On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update: I have been rolling this stuff around and I > am nearly ready to have something to show.
I really like what you've described. > I have also modified fileset, dirset, filelist and > path to implement ResourceCollection. Have you modified AbstractFileSet or the individual subclasses? > Hopefully nobody has any major issues with this but I suppose if > they do now is the time to get them out. Agreed. > 1) a name for a ResourceCollection that acts like a > Union without removing duplicates. What would it be used for? It is not a set operation that way and I'm not familiar enough (at least the english terms of) with list theory (if there is something like that at all). append? join? > 2) should there be a reference-only (resources) type > that can generically use a ResourceCollection of an > unknown type? What would it be used for? > Finally, I would like to reach a consensus on the approach I should > take to adding this; dump it all into CVS HEAD or create a sandbox > area? I'd go for CVS HEAD unless anybody else objects. > If the latter, I am still a little unclear on what tricks could be > used to make it easier to use modified core code in a sandbox and > would appreciate advice from other committers. I once did so for the input proposal and I think the original antlib code did as well. Basically you add your versions of all classes that you need to modifiy to the sandbox and when you compile you make sure your versions are before Ant's classes in the CLASSPATH. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
