[nant-dev] Re: [Nant-users] Whatever happened w/ 0.8?

2002-09-06 Thread Ben Lowery
any progress on this one? i think the big refactoring that just happened was in support of 0.9.0, but what ever happened to 0.8.0? also, are the items on the TODO page current? are those what's needed to get to the different milestones? i would love to see nant get to 1.0 so more people would

RE: [nant-dev] Modified LoopTask...

2002-09-06 Thread Smith, Eric V.
> -Original Message- > From: Jorge Bermejo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:12 PM > To: 'Shaw, Gerry'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [nant-dev] Modified LoopTask... > > > Gerry- > That's precisely the point, I "Do" want users to override (or > trash)

RE: [nant-dev] Modified LoopTask...

2002-09-06 Thread Jorge Bermejo
Gerry- That's precisely the point, I "Do" want users to override (or trash) default property values whenever they need to, In our specific case Nant needs to prepare/configure the testing environment for Web services/Website unit-testing and since each user might have different website names, port

Re: [nant-dev] Property names and functions

2002-09-06 Thread Gordon Weakliem
I definitely think that defining what a legal property name is would be a big benefit. As it stands, "" is a legal property name, I can write and it's legal. This has a practical consequence, in that I think it's currently impossible to correctly parse the -D argument if you don't know what th

RE: [nant-dev] Modified LoopTask...

2002-09-06 Thread Shaw, Gerry
This is an interesting patch but with its current implementation I think it's a bit dangerous. The potential for trashing pre-set properties is quite high. The intention of the property attribute on the loop task was so that you as the build author know what property is going to change. With th

[nant-dev] Modified LoopTask...

2002-09-06 Thread Jorge Bermejo
Hello all, I've modified the LoopTask to iterate over XML elements defined in an external file, this new behavior will create multiple Project.properties out of its attributes. This can be handy when end-users (release managers) need to modify the build behavior without touching the build files