We already have tasks:
<sysinfo>
<tstamp>
<available>
<if>
that are basically readonly (they only change properties) and are just used
to retrieve/calculate some information. We have four ways of doing so, why
add fifth one? I think this should be done as a function ONLY:
<property name="somepath" value="c:\temp\test.txt" />
<property name="basename"
value="${path::get-file-name-without-extension(somepath)}" />
It's both readable and can be used in all places, like CSC task:
<csc output="${path::combine(path::get-directory-name(somefile),
'outputfile.dll')}">
...
</csc>
or:
<csc output="${path::get-directory-name(somefile)}/outputfile.dll">
...
</csc>
Try it:
http://jaak.sav.net/nant-ee/nant-ee-test4.zip
Jarek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gert Driesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "William E Caputo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Nant-Developers (E-Mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [nant-dev] SUBMISSION: Path Task
> <start-rant>
>
> Guess this will be the start of many dilemma's ... I'm pretty sure there
> will always be people that prefer xml build elements only, and actually
> that's also one of my concerns ... I'd hate to see build files reduced to
> large chunks of scripts ...
>
> As long as we allow build authors to choose themselves I certainly have no
> problem with the expression eval support, I actually like it very much,
but
> we should give build authors a choice in this matter ...
>
> I'm definitely not saying that we should provide a task alternative for
> every function we support in the expression eval, but by not providing
task
> support for "basic" build "tasks", we're actually forcing build authors to
> use expression support ...
>
> </end-rant>
>
> If we decide to add William's task, I think we should :
> - add it to NAntContrib first
> - split it up into at least 3 tasks, like Ant has : dirname, basename,
> and path-combine (or something, doesn't exist in Ant)
>
> What do you think ?
>
> Gert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "William E Caputo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 5:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [nant-dev] SUBMISSION: Path Task
>
>
> > This looks good William. However I'm thinking that the new function
> > support will be easier to use to do this kind of stuff.
> >
> > the following path related functions will be included:
> >
> > path.changeextension
> > path.combine
> > path.getdirectoryname
> > path.getextension
> > path.getfilename
> > path.getfilenamewithoutextension
> > path.getfullpath
> > path.getpathroot
> > path.gettempfilename
> > path.gettemppath
> > path.hasextension
> > path.ispathrooted
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > William E Caputo wrote:
> >
> > >(This is a resend. I didn't see it come across the list the first time
I
> > >sent it. My apologies if it comes through twice)
> > >
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >Attached is a zip file containing a task called path. This task
extracts
> > >path information from a given partial (or complete) path name and
> > >optionally expands it to a fully-qualified path, using either the
current
> > >working directory or the Project's base directory as the root, and
places
> > >in a designated property.
> > >
> > >I looked through the list of tasks and didn't see anything that did
> > >something like this (and we needed it) so after implementing it in a
> > >script task, I decided to code it up as a full-fledged task and submit
it
> > >in the hope that it will be useful to others.
> > >
> > >I wrote it is as being in the Nant.Core namespace because that is where
> > >copy and mkdir are (and we seem to always be manipulating paths in our
> > >build files) but if the project's admins prefer that it be a somewhere
> > >else in NAnt or submitted to NAntContrib instead that is fine by me (I
> > >didn't cross post, but I will send it to that list if you like).
> > >
> > >The task is accompanied by 12 tests, and is fully documented.
> > >
> > >Best,
> > >Bill
> > >
> > >William E. Caputo
> > >ThoughtWorks, Inc.
> > >http://www.williamcaputo.com
> > >--------
> > >idia ktesis, koine chresis
> > >
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >Attached is a zip file containing a task called path. This task
extracts
> > >path information from a given partial (or complete) path name and
> > >optionally expands it to a fully-qualified path, using either the
current
> > >working directory or the Project's base directory as the root, and
places
> > >in a designated property.
> > >
> > >I looked through the list of tasks and didn't see anything that did
> > >something like this (and we needed it) so after implementing it in a
> > >script task, I decided to code it up as a full-fledged task and submit
it
> > >in the hope that it will be useful to others.
> > >
> > >I wrote it is as being in the Nant.Core namespace because that is where
> > >copy and mkdir are (and we seem to always be manipulating paths in our
> > >build files) but if the project's admins prefer that it be a somewhere
> > >else in NAnt or submitted to NAntContrib instead that is fine by me (I
> > >didn't cross post, but I will send it to that list if you like).
> > >
> > >The task is accompanied by 12 tests, and is fully documented.
> > >
> > >Best,
> > >Bill
> > >
> > >William E. Caputo
> > >ThoughtWorks, Inc.
> > >http://www.williamcaputo.com
> > >--------
> > >idia ktesis, koine chresis
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ian MacLean, Developer,
> > ActiveState, a division of Sophos
> > http://www.ActiveState.com
> >
> >
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