Oops, I suggested the exact same thing before I had read this. Serves me right for not reading the whole thread before replying.
In looking through the Ant code, the only tricky thing they do is to ensure that there isn't a circular reference. Not a hard check to do, but an important one. --- Gerry Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was thinking about the id'ed FileSet's. Here > is what would need > > > changing: > > > > > > * Add an Id property to the FileSet class > > > > I'm kind of curious about why implement it this > way.... it > > seems to me, that everything in the buildfile > should be able > > to be referenced by an ID, so I'd think a more > interesting > > idea would be to add the Id property to the > Element base > > class, and instead get the Project class to keep a > collection > > of Elements... of course, for larger buildfiles > this would > > imply a fairly heavy runtime memory cost, but > perhaps that > > could be avoided as well (particularly if we don't > mind > > parsing an element twice and "executing" it in > different instances... > > > > What do you guys think? I admit I have no clue as > to what Ant > > does in this context, though.... > > Great idea! Also you shouldn't get a big runtime > cost if you only > stored elements that specified an id. If an element > included a refid > field then the element could initialize itself from > the Project's copy > and then apply any changes also specified in the > buildfile. > > That sounds pretty simple from a user's point of > view while still being > pretty easy to implement. > > Example: > > <echo id="HelloEcho" message="Hello, World"/> > <!-- what happens here? Does the command get > executed? This is a bit > fuzzy. I would say yes. And if you didn't want it > to execute you could > use the if attribute. --> > > <echo refid="HelloEcho"/> > <!-- here I would assume the echo task gets > initialized with > message="Hello, World"/> --> > > <echo refid="HelloEcho" message="Goodbye!"/> > <!-- here the echo task gets init'ed with 'Hello, > World!' then gets set > to 'Goodbye!'. --> > > > Opinions on this would be useful. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Nant-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
