Hello NAnt devs,
My friend and I are .NET developers and have been successfully
using NAnt for our build scripts for some time. However, there have been
several cases where ours scripts would have benefited if NAnt had the concept
of collections such as a linked list or a dictionary. In place of those,
we have used delimited strings in properties but that can only take you so
far.
In light of this, we are interested in developing a library of tasks
and functions to add collections to NAnt. We have only begun thinking about
this, so nothing is concrete yet, but we are thinking of syntax along these
lines:
<dict-add dictionary="MyDictionary" key="MyKey1" value="MyValue1">
<dict-add dictionary="MyDictionary" key="MyKey2" value="MyValue2">
<echo
message="My value is: ${dict::get-value('MyDictionary', 'MyKey1')}"/>
<dict-foreach
dictionary="MyDictionary" key-property="_key">
<!-- Do something -->
</dict-foreach>
I was wondering if there is already a separate project, or support within
NAnt, for something along these lines. If so, we would probably not start
from scratch but would use or extend what the community has already developed.
Have you heard of anything along these lines? If we did develop this, would
you be interested in incorporating it in the NAnt or NAntContrib libraries?
Any advice or words of warning if we were to start this project?
Thanks,
~ Justin Kohlhepp
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