RE: [nant-dev] filesets and properties

[Scott Hernandez]

There was a discussion a ways back about supporting id/ref stuff for elements (including filesets).   I’m not sure how properties would work for this. Right now there isn’t really support for any type of property other than a string; and in-fact, the property add methods takes a string key and value.   I assume you want to reuse a fileset in multiple places. How do you feel about the id/ref idea?   It would look something like this.                             <fileset id="myfileset" basedir="baz">                                     <includes name="**/*.cs"/>                                     <excludes name="foo.cs"/>                         </ >                           <fileset ref=”myfileset”/> <!—would be the same as embedding the above fileset-->   You may want to look through the archives for more information. I think there was a lengthy discussion (> 5 emails) about it.   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lalonde, Paul Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:08 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [nant-dev] filesets and properties   I was mucking around with Nant, and found myself needing a persistent fileset, and was thinking about a syntax that merges the idea with a property.  How do people feel about:                           <property name="myfileset" basedir="baz">                                     <includes name="**/*.cs"/>                                     <excludes name="foo.cs"/>                         </property>                           <echo message="${myfileset}"/>   would print (assuming my directory had foo.cs, bar.cs, qux.cs): baz/bar.cs baz/qux.cs   (it could resolve to full pathnames if that makes sense)   Paul