Sascha,
I guess I have this question... Should both these functionalities be
combined in a single task?
Why not just support two sep. tasks.
<concat ...>
<.../>
</>
<filter .../>
That leaves the choice to the user about what they want to do. They can mix
and match anyway they want.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sascha Andres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [nant-dev] New task: cat
> Hi,
> * Sascha Andres wrote on 17.09.2003 (21:56):
> > Perhaps it's time to move it to NAnt.Core? I'll have a look,
> > and see what needs to be done to implement the filter I
> > mentioned earlier. After that, I'll post a patch for that
> > one.
>
> I had a look at the concat task. The concat task uses a
> FileStrem to read and write. So it can handle binary files
> as well as text files. It has one caveat to transfer this
> way: It makes it hard to work with a filter using regular
> expressions.
>
> I see the following possibilities:
>
> * Add a filter attribute. If set use a StreamReader /
> StreamWriter combination. I don't really like this one, as
> this sounds like bad design.
> * Drop the filter idea. I think a filtering task would be
> nice to have.- At least when it's done with the power of
> regular expressions.
> * Use concat as a binary save cat, rename my cat task to
> something more regex specific, but leave the cat
> functionality. Add fileet support, make filter not
> optional.
>
> What do you think?
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