Hey Ryan,

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

Gert

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From: "Ryan Boggs" <rmbo...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:53 PM
To: "Dominik Guder" <o...@guder.org>
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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