I didn’t drop enough
information into my mail. I’m proposing that a
representation for a fileset could be a space-delimited collection of
filenames in a property.
My only difficulty
with the id/ref idea relates to adding a new class of object, the fileset,
where an existing object, the property, could likely do the job.
That said, I’m pretty
new to NAnt (but not to large build systems), and would love to be re-educated
on the issue.
Paul
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Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:19
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To: Lalonde,
Paul
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Subject: RE: [nant-dev] filesets and
properties
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.
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To:
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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
