Hi,
We are working on an open source project, a tool to aid the
build/test/documentation process. This will come in the form of a set of
nAnt templates packaged up with the required binaries (nAnt, nUnit,
nCover, nCoverExplorer ...) to provide a "one click" solution.
Anyway, as party of our solution, we wanted to provide a non-intrusive
and optional way of integrating with visual studio project files. We
achieved this by implementing a BluePrintFileset task that supports a
XmlInclude element. This allows you to pass an XPath expression (and
optionally a path xslt file to transform the xml file before applying
the XPath expression). This allows something like this in the nAnt file:
<blueprintfileset id="sources">
<xmlinclude src="${path.src.project.csproj}"
xpath="/ns:Project/ns:ItemGroup/ns:Compile/@Include">
<namespaces>
<namespace prefix="ns"
uri="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003"; />
</namespaces>
</xmlinclude>
</blueprintfileset>
And this can be used in the compile task.
This works very well so far, but we have one issue. We realised later on
the ResourceFileset is a specialised type. So we thought of refactoring
our code to also provide a special case of this. However, we noticed
this class is sealed. We changed this and re-compiled and tested our
solution and all seems to work.
So we have a couple of questions. Firstly, is there any reason why this
class is sealed?
Secondly, we would obviously prefer to not have to use a "bespoke"
version of nAnt. So would there be any way we could commit this change
if there would be no specific reason for this to be sealed? Or, is there
any scope to add the XmlInclude element to the standard Fileset? It may
be generally quite useful functionality?
I tried to attached a copy of the task for reference, but the email
didn't get through, so if anybody wants a copy, let me know and I'll
email it or upload it somewhere.
Dries.
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