RE: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?... discussion of task communication

2004-09-30 Thread Martin Aliger
How about this stuff? > I think that XML-based communication between tasks and the > trycatch task have different purposes. Specifically, > trycatch is a flow control device. Flow control can > certainly be reproduced with increased task verbosity, but > using a flow control device to descri

Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?... discussion of task communication

2004-07-12 Thread Sascha Andres
Hi, * Troy Laurin wrote on 13.07.2004 (09:24): > Sascha Andres wrote: Added above line. Deleted too much, and don't wanted to use undo after I wrote all of the text ;) > > can be accessed from all tasks. The last function adds a protected > > object to the store only readable from a task of the

Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?... discussion of task communication

2004-07-12 Thread Troy Laurin
Comments inline... -T > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sascha Andres > > When I think a bit more of sharing information throughout tasks I come > to these points: > > In a programming language, data can be: > > * private > * pu

RE: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?

2004-07-09 Thread Clayton Harbour
s it is time to summarize :-). +1 for the (or ) Cheers, Clayton > -Original Message- > From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: July 8, 2004 11:05 PM > To: Troy Laurin; Nant-Developers (E-Mail) > Subject: Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ? > > > Troy, &

Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?... discussion of task communication

2004-07-09 Thread Sascha Andres
Hi, * Martin Aliger wrote on 09.07.2004 (13:43): > to pass information from one task to other. Since speed is not main interest > in automated builds (sorry Matt - I still appreciate your optimization > work!) XML should be straightforward solution. But I never think we will > serialize XML on ever

RE: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?... discussion of task communication

2004-07-09 Thread Martin Aliger
Hi again, > > Some time ago I propose XML-like based communication - maybe its time comes? > > How do you see it now when there was enough time to consider it? > > I don't like the we-do-anything-in-xml approach. XML is a > nice thing, but it certainly adds some overhead to > communications. I wou

Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?

2004-07-09 Thread Sascha Andres
Hi, * Martin Aliger wrote on 09.07.2004 (08:40): > I think both are cases of inter-task communication. IMO current nant is > totally missing such communication. errorproperty proposal is very limited > implementation of such communication. I'd rather prefer making something > more robust enabling m

RE: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?... discussion of task communication

2004-07-09 Thread Troy Laurin
hare? Regards, -- Troy > -Original Message- > From: Martin Aliger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 9 July 2004 2:40 PM > To: Gert Driesen; Troy Laurin; Nant-Developers (E-Mail) > Subject: Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ? > > I think both are cases of inter-task c

RE: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?

2004-07-08 Thread Troy Laurin
y, leading to larger build files. -T > -Original Message- > From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 9 July 2004 2:05 PM > To: Troy Laurin; Nant-Developers (E-Mail) > Subject: Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ? > > Troy, > > I think we first n

Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?

2004-07-08 Thread Martin Aliger
l)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ? > Troy, > > I think we first need to come to an agreement on whether its a good idea to > add a try-catch task, or whether to go for the errorproperty implementation. &g

Re: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?

2004-07-08 Thread Gert Driesen
riginal Message - From: "Troy Laurin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nant-Developers (E-Mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 4:06 AM Subject: RE: [nant-dev] trycatch task ? I'm not sure about a try-catch task, but I found that a try-finally task (atta

RE: [nant-dev] trycatch task ?

2004-07-08 Thread Troy Laurin
I'm not sure about a try-catch task, but I found that a try-finally task (attached... the implementation is the obvious one, which seems to work) greatly improved the apparent intent of my build file for a clearcase-export target (Needed only because clearcase doesn't actually support the idea of