[nant-dev] Tasks for reading/writing environment variables

2004-05-19 Thread Delmerico, James
All- Ive created a pair of NANT tasks to read and write environment variables. Reading is done using Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable and stored in a property and writing via the windows API ala DllImport. Any environment variables set during the execution of a nant run are only

Re: [nant-dev] Tasks for reading/writing environment variables

2004-05-19 Thread Ian MacLean
Hi James, NAnt currently already has 2 mechanisms for *reading* environment variables, the| environment::get-variable [1] function and the sysinfo/ [2] task. However there is no way to set them so your setenv ( or whatever you called it ) task sounds useful. Even better would be to add a

Re: [nant-dev] specifying framework capabilities

2004-05-19 Thread Ian MacLean
I don't propose anything but I think you just did :) Using the FrameworkConfigurable attribute seems a reasonable way to do this. I wouldn't worry too much about third party tasks just yet. Hopefully they'll maintain the same commanline interface across platforms. We're only getting this issue