Hey Ryan,

Check the docs of the <sysinfo> task.
Note that its not officially deprecated, so I'd still fix any issues.

Gert

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Boggs [mailto:rmbo...@gmail.com] 
Sent: vrijdag 26 maart 2010 15:53
To: Dominik Guder
Cc: nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [nant-dev] sysinfo task

Hi,

On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Dominik Guder <o...@guder.org> wrote:

> Am 25.03.2010 17:12, schrieb Gert Driesen:
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> I guess it won't make it in time for the 0.90 release.
>> Personally, I even consider the sysinfo task deprecated.
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:10 AM, "Gert Driesen" <gert.drie...@telenet.be 
>>>>> >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ryan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We cannot allow parenthesis in property names, as that would  
>>>>>> screw
>>>>>> up our expression tokenizer.
>>>>>> I'm more enclined to a machanism that allows explicit control  
>>>>>> over
>>>>>> the property names that a given environment variable is mapped  
>>>>>> to.
>>>>>> Something similar to the file mappers in Ant would be great.
>>>>>>
>>>>> If I understand you correctly, are you referring to something  
>>>>> like:
>>>>>
>>>>> <sysinfo>
>>>>> <mapper type="glob" from="*(* to="*_*" />
>>>>> </sysinfo>
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I understanding you right?
>>>>
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry, I did not write that I checked the parens handling in
> properties and found out that the parser will fail. The mapper  
> solution
> looks good but as Gert stated <sysinfo> is kind of deprecated. So we
> might not put to much effort into it.

Does anyone know if <sysinfo> was replaced by anything?  This would be  
good to know.

> Another point which needs attantion (propably for 1.0) is that I was
> able to define a property with parens without getting an exception at
> definition time. More detail later.
>
Can you provide an example when you get a moment? I would like to look  
into this.

> First of all I want to get these tests green for 0.90 release.
> My proposal:
> - add "failonerror='true'" to all existing tests
> - add a new test which throws BuildException for
> "Environment.ProgramFiles(64)"
> - fix docu
> - sort output
>
> What do you think?
>
I like it.

> Regards Dominik
>
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