I've finally made it into the office today and was able to test out the quick changes I made. I fixed a missing attribute and missing #endregion directive (this is the version without the dynamic attribute).
BTW, thanks for taking the time to looks at this stuff - I really appreciate it.
James.
Quoting Scott Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm inclined to put new tasks like this in NAntContrib. Does anyone have a
> major complaint about that? We can always move it later.
>
> As for your implementation; It seems okay. I'm a little confused about what
> you've done for the "on" attribute. It looks like you are not expanding,
> supporting expressions, for those values unless an additional attribute
> "dynamic" is set. What is the value in this?
>
> It would seem cleaner to me to just let the "on" attribute be auto-expanded.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James C. Papp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > DependsTask Patch
> >
> > Here is an implementation of the <depends/> task. It allows the use of
> dynamic
> > dependencies which was possible with earlier versions of NAnt through the
> > <call/> task, but with current changes is now longer allowed (deprecation
> of
> > the force attribute).
> >
> > It is particularly useful for handling dependencies that change based on
> some
> > input conditions/parameters, or when the dependencies are not known until
> > runtime.
> >
> > Here's a quick example of the possibilities:
> >
> > <target name="foo">
> > <if test="${some-option}">
> > <depends on="A, B, ${set-at-runtime-target}/>
> > </if>
> > </target>
> >
> > For more information about this, check out the thread: "[nant-dev] Change
> to
> > "call" task makes upgrade difficult"
> >
> >
>
http://www.mail-archive.com/nant-developers%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg03105.html
> >
> > Personally, I think it should be part of the core because it really is an
> > expansion of the <target/> depends attribute (they go hand-in-hand),
> however; I
> > would be just as happy if everyone decided to stick it in NAntContrib.
>
>
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