Should I add Deprecated attribute to "propertyexists", "propertytrue" and
"taskexists" in EE-patches?
Jarek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Gert Driesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "William E Caputo"
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Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [nant-dev] SUBMISSION: Path Task
> +1 on the if task refactoring. I'm not sure about removing <sysinfo>
> though. I realize that a getenv() function would provide equivalent
> functionality, however I like the fact that I just need to do
> <sysinfo/>
> and then I have access to the environment block without having to call
> any more functions. Maybe I have just a fondness for the current way of
> doing it. :)
>
> Ian
>
>
> Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:
>
> >>Tasks should offer functionality on a much higher level than functions
...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Here's my dream about NAnt:
> >
> >1. Tasks should actually DO something. That "something" is: compile,
create,
> >delete, XSL transform, update from cvs, send email, run unit tests,
install,
> >uninstall, start/stop services, start/kill processes,
compress/decompress.
> >
> >There'are actually some tasks that do nothing like that, but they direct
the
> >build process:
> >
> ><call>
> ><description>
> ><fail>
> ><if>
> ><ifnot>
> ><include>
> ><loadtasks>
> ><nant>
> ><property>
> ><script>
> >
> >These should be definitely kept.
> >
> >2. I would consider removing any task that is neither used to direct the
> >build process nor noes "something" - as described above.
> >My candidates for removal are:
> >
> ><sysinfo>
> ><tstamp>
> ><available>
> >
> >3. I'm also thinking about removing:
> >
> ><readregistry> (maybe not, because it can be used to read many values
at
> >once)
> ><xmlpeek> (maybe not, because it's a nice pair to <xmlpoke>)
> >
> >4. I also think that <if> should be restructured to include only "test"
> >attribute.
> >
> ><if propertytrue="aaaa" /> would become <if test="${aaaa}" />
> ><if propertyexists="aaaa" /> would become <if
> >test=${nant::property-exists('aaaa')}" />
> ><if targetexists="aaaa" /> would become <if
> >test=${nant::target-exists('aaaa')}" />
> >
> ><ifnot> should be eliminated, because you can always write "not" in
> >expressions.
> >
> >So:
> >
> ><ifnot propertytrue="aaaa"/> would become <if test="${not aaaa}" />
> ><ifnot propertyexists="aaaa"/> would become <if test="${not
> >nant::property-exists('aaaa')}" />
> ><ifnot targetexists="aaaa"/> would become <if test="${not
> >nant::target-exists('aaaa')}" />
> >
> >5. There's a problem with "uptodatefile", but I think this should go into
> >another task or a function. Like:
> >
> ><check-up-to-date property="">
> > <target-files>
> > <includes name="..." />
> > </target-files>
> > <source-files>
> > <includes name="..." />
> > </source-files>
> ></check-up-to-date>
> >
> >A function that would be useful for single-file to single-file
comparison:
> >
> ><if test="${file::is-newer-than('file1','file2')}" />
> >
> >6. With these changes we'd have an <if> task that would be clean and we'd
> >get rid of <sysinfo>, <tstamp>, <available>
> >
> >7. All above syntax changes could be done automatically with the help of
a
> >simple XSLT file that would rewrite buildfiles.
> >
> >Jarek
> >
> >
> >
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