Re: [nant-dev] [Fwd: Ready to tackle next release]

[Ian MacLean]

+1, mainly because I've just found a use for it in our linux build. We 
need to create a nant shell script that contains the full path to the 
just built NAnt.exe which we won't know till we build it. So it would be 
a prime candidate for a use of the replace task.

Ian

The <touch /> task could possibly be modified to do it. But replace
would possibly be more intuitive for new users than using a filter
chain. It could probably support filter chains anyway - it might also be
cool to have a generic <filter /> task too. Next release :)
I'm thinking that we could put the replace task in now since it would be
useful, and then modify its implementation when chaining support is
added.
What do you all think?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:03 AM
To: Gert Driesen
Cc: Mitch Denny; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [nant-dev] [Fwd: Ready to tackle next release]

I just noticed that Ant still has both the replaceTask and 
the filtersets in copy/zip etc. I'm sure you could accomplish 
an in-place replace with filtersets but I can see a task 
called replace being easier for new uesrs to deal with than 
filterchains.

Ian

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/replace.html

Gert Driesen wrote:

   

to be honest, I'm not sure about that one ... If necessary we could 
ofcourse create a task for that, but I was just saying we don't 
necessary need one ... didn't really give it much thought yet ...

Gert

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What if you want to replace strings in a file in place ? - 
       

ie without 
   

copying/moving the file

Ian
Gert Driesen wrote:
  

       

something like that yes :-)

but instead of having a separate task for that purpose, filterchain
    

         

support

     

would be added to existing tasks (like copy, zip, ...)

Gert

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So in implementation it would work like this:

[FilterChain("filterchain")]
public FilterChain FilterChain {
...
}
Then in the execute task:

StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(...); StreamWriter writer = 
new StreamWriter(...); this.FilterChain.Filter(reader, writer);

Or something like that.

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