RE: [nant-dev] Property Scoping

[Mitch Denny]

What about scoped properties?


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From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, 23 January 2004 7:07 AM
To: Jaroslaw Kowalski
Cc: Mitch Denny; Scott Hernandez; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [nant-dev] Property Scoping

To be honest I'd like to see us release a 1.0 with the current feature
set before implementing somthing like typed properties.

it would be kinda nice to unify properties and type references which are
both essentially different types of variables. However I do feel that
this is peripheral to what the majority of users want to do with nant. 
ie its quite a big change which doesn't actually make that much of a
user-visible difference in many cases. Not that its not worth
investigating just that it might be sensible to set this out past a 1.0
release.

Ian

Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:

Yeah, I was considering the same thing. I also wondered whether this 
could mean that there could be a unified type system. Filesets, string

properties etc.



You mean storing a fileset inside a property? Interesting idea.

Gert, Ian, Scott - what do you think about typed properties?

Jarek


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Re: [nant-dev] Property Scoping

[Martin Aliger]

 To be honest I'd like to see us release a 1.0 with the current feature
 set before implementing somthing like typed properties.

Agree. Still I'd like to see some verbosity patch and fileset extensions in
1.0 somehow. Hope those will find its way into 1.0 even they are not in
release plan.

 it would be kinda nice to unify properties and type references which are
 both essentially different types of variables. However I do feel that
 this is peripheral to what the majority of users want to do with nant.
 ie its quite a big change which doesn't actually make that much of a
 user-visible difference in many cases. Not that its not worth
 investigating just that it might be sensible to set this out past a 1.0
 release.

To yours 2nd mail:
Sure this is clean in a mathematical sense but personally I'd rather see
a more verbose layout that actually gives me an idea of what files the
fileset will match just by looking at it. Given that it can be hard to
determine what a given fileset will match right now I imagine it will be
that much more difficult trying to work out the result after a
difference operation has been performed.

Agree. I have more and more feeling that just add includes refid=/ into
fileset should be enough. It is not type-general but...

Martin



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