adammurdoch 02/02/27 05:19:40
Modified: proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs todo.xml
proposal/myrmidon/docs todo.html
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Added more stuff to the todo list.
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</subsection>
+<subsection name="File Data-Types and Tasks">
+
+<p>The file data-types, such as <code><fileset></code> and
+<code><path></code>, are some of the most widely used parts of Ant 1.x.
+Unfortunately, they aren't particularly extensible.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Redesign the file data-types, replacing them with an interface-based
+ API, plus a set of implementations. The API should use the VFS file
+ <code>FileObject</code>, rather than <code>java.io.File</code>.
+ This process has started, in the <code>antlib.vfile</code> package.
+ </li>
+ <li>File Selectors:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Change <code>AbstractNameFileSelector</code> to use Ant 1 style
patterns
+ matches, rather than Globs patterns.</li>
+ <li>Add 'defaultexcludes' to <code>DefaultFileSet</code>. Also add a
+ file selector implementation that matches everything except the
default
+ excludes.</li>
+ <li>Add a condition -> file selector adaptor, so that arbitrary
conditions
+ can be used to select files.</li>
+ <li>Add a name selector that loads patterns from a file.</li>
+ <li>Add more selector implementations: size and last-modified
comparisons,
+ checksum comparison, byte-wise content comparison.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>File Name Mappers:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add a file name mapper interface, and port the current Mapper
+ implementations to it.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>File Sets:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add a file set implementation that uses a mapper to transform a
nested
+ file set.</li>
+ <li>Add a file set implementation that provides the union of several
+ nested file sets (that is, a file set that merges several file sets
+ together).</li>
+ <li>Add a file set implementation that filters files that are
up-to-date
+ WRT some other file. Alternatively, this might be better done using
a
+ file selector.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Paths:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add path implementations that evaluate to the system classpath,
+ and the ant runtime classpath. Or, more generally, combine this with
+ <code>ClassLoaderManager</code> to evaluate to the classpath of any
+ 'library' (e.g. system classpath, ant runtime, tools.jar,
+ an antlib, an installed extension, or the system classes of another
JVM
+ for cross-compiling).</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>File Filters:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add a file filter interface, and use it in the copy task.</li>
+ <li>Add a filter implementation that applies the token replacement
that
+ the old copy task provides.</li>
+ <li>Add a filter that does cr/lf translation.</li>
+ <li>Add a gzip/gunzip filter.</li>
+ <li>Add a filter that applies character set encode/decode.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Copy task:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Implement 'preservelastmodified', 'overwrite', and
'includeemptydirs'.</li>
+ <li>Support a file name mapper.</li>
+ <li>Support file filters.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Implement the <code><move></code>, <code><delete></code>,
+ <code><touch></code> and <code><mkdir></code> tasks on top
+ of the VFS and the new file data-types. Might be some scope for
generalising
+ 'touch' and 'mkdir' into a single task.</li>
+</ul>
+
+</subsection>
+
<subsection name="Command-line and Configuration Files">
<p>One of the goals of Ant 2 is to allow the user to easily customise and
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Index: todo.html
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+ <a name="File Data-Types and Tasks"><strong>File Data-Types and
Tasks</strong></a>
+ </font>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>The file data-types, such as
<code><fileset></code> and
+<code><path></code>, are some of the most widely used parts of Ant 1.x.
+Unfortunately, they aren't particularly extensible.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Redesign the file data-types, replacing them with an interface-based
+ API, plus a set of implementations. The API should use the VFS file
+ <code>FileObject</code>, rather than <code>java.io.File</code>.
+ This process has started, in the <code>antlib.vfile</code> package.
+ </li>
+ <li>File Selectors:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Change <code>AbstractNameFileSelector</code> to use Ant 1 style
patterns
+ matches, rather than Globs patterns.</li>
+ <li>Add 'defaultexcludes' to <code>DefaultFileSet</code>. Also add a
+ file selector implementation that matches everything except the
default
+ excludes.</li>
+ <li>Add a condition -> file selector adaptor, so that arbitrary
conditions
+ can be used to select files.</li>
+ <li>Add a name selector that loads patterns from a file.</li>
+ <li>Add more selector implementations: size and last-modified
comparisons,
+ checksum comparison, byte-wise content comparison.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>File Name Mappers:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add a file name mapper interface, and port the current Mapper
+ implementations to it.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>File Sets:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add a file set implementation that uses a mapper to transform a
nested
+ file set.</li>
+ <li>Add a file set implementation that provides the union of several
+ nested file sets (that is, a file set that merges several file sets
+ together).</li>
+ <li>Add a file set implementation that filters files that are
up-to-date
+ WRT some other file. Alternatively, this might be better done using
a
+ file selector.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Paths:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add path implementations that evaluate to the system classpath,
+ and the ant runtime classpath. Or, more generally, combine this with
+ <code>ClassLoaderManager</code> to evaluate to the classpath of any
+ 'library' (e.g. system classpath, ant runtime, tools.jar,
+ an antlib, an installed extension, or the system classes of another
JVM
+ for cross-compiling).</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>File Filters:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Add a file filter interface, and use it in the copy task.</li>
+ <li>Add a filter implementation that applies the token replacement
that
+ the old copy task provides.</li>
+ <li>Add a filter that does cr/lf translation.</li>
+ <li>Add a gzip/gunzip filter.</li>
+ <li>Add a filter that applies character set encode/decode.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Copy task:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Implement 'preservelastmodified', 'overwrite', and
'includeemptydirs'.</li>
+ <li>Support a file name mapper.</li>
+ <li>Support file filters.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Implement the <code><move></code>, <code><delete></code>,
+ <code><touch></code> and <code><mkdir></code> tasks on top
+ of the VFS and the new file data-types. Might be some scope for
generalising
+ 'touch' and 'mkdir' into a single task.</li>
+</ul>
+ </blockquote>
+ </td></tr>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+ <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
+ <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="Command-line and Configuration Files"><strong>Command-line
and Configuration Files</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
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