Re: [nant-dev] Rename NAnt.Zip ?

2004-11-09 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: Hi, Should we rename the NAnt.Zip(Tasks) namespace, assembly and directory name to NAnt.Compression (or if someone can come up with a better name ...), now that I've also added tar support ? sounds good to me. Ian Gert ---

[nant-dev] Re: [Nant-users] Content of distributions ?

2004-11-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: Hi, Right now, the zip & tar flavors of our distributions have the same content. I wonder if it makes sense to include the SDK docs in HTML Help format for the (gzipped) tar flavor, as these target *nux anyway. that probably doesn't make much sense if we assume that Windows u

Re: [nant-dev] Fwd: VB task not working

2004-11-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fetzer Sent: woensdag 17 november 2004 17:39 To: Gert Driesen; 'NAnt Developers' Subject: RE: [nant-dev] Fwd: VB task not working Gert, Thanks, but I tried that. I already had

Re: [nant-dev] Separating targets into individual files

2004-11-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Neil Cowburn wrote: I have a number of targets of various type (code compilers, file system management, custom scripts) and I'd like to separate them out into individual files and reference them from a master build file. I thought the task would meet my requirements, but since it executes the targ

Re: [nant-dev] Separating targets into individual files

2004-11-21 Thread Ian MacLean
estion - but you can call specific targets in an included build file from a master file. And as Troy pointed out you can call individual targets using the nant task as well. Ian --Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian MacLean Sent: 18

Re: [nant-dev] Adding extension objects to style task

2004-11-21 Thread Ian MacLean
Tim Noll wrote: I'd like to propose adding extension objects to the style task. More information about extension objects can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconXsltArgumentListForStylesheetParametersExtensionObjects.asp The build file t

Re: [nant-dev] NAnt 0.85 release - how ?

2004-11-22 Thread Ian MacLean
Martin Aliger wrote: ps : I've got a small nant function called is-assembly (to determine whether a file is a valid assembly or not). Is it worth contributing ? I'm using it to separate my "legacy dll" from assemblies. I know there's the get-assembly-name trick, but mayb

Re: [nant-dev] Adding extension objects to style task

2004-12-02 Thread Ian MacLean
sure it works against the 0.85 code base. And, yes, extension objects will have to have a default parameterless constructor for now. Regards, Tim On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:11:27 +0900, Ian MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tim Noll wrote: -

Re: [nant-dev] Adding extension objects to style task

2004-12-05 Thread Ian MacLean
stuff has been committed to cvs. Ian Tim On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:10:16 +0900, Ian MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tim Noll wrote: Here are the changes needed in order to add extension objects to the style task. This change consists of three files: NAnt.Core\Tasks\StyleTask.cs

Re: [nant-dev] task question

2004-12-05 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Jansen Sent: vrijdag 3 december 2004 17:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [nant-dev] task question Hi again, I have a question about the task and the project::get-buildfile-p

Re: [nant-dev] task question

2004-12-08 Thread Ian MacLean
Ian MacLean wrote: Gert Driesen wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Jansen Sent: vrijdag 3 december 2004 17:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [nant-dev] task question Hi again, I have a question about the task and the

Re: [nant-dev] task question

2004-12-08 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: - Original Message - From: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Gert Driesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Steve Jansen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [nant-dev] Re: NDoc 1.3

2004-12-19 Thread Ian MacLean
Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote: I like the wrapper idea. I never understood why NAnt included NDoc instead of just spawning it. Same thing applies to NUnit. It would be cool to have a common way of detecting the packages locations. I think we can use pkgconfig approach on Unix and AssemblyFolders or

Re: [nant-dev] Getting the NAnt ${variable} working?

2005-01-11 Thread Ian MacLean
Wen Ching Chua wrote: I try to find on the internet on how to achieve this in C#, but still can't find any good resources till i downloaded Nant. But there are too many codes inside Nant, and i have no idea which part of Nant code that can achieve this below.

Re: [nant-dev] task

2005-02-14 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: Hi all, Why doesn't the task support the NDoc argument "xmldoc" (see http://ndoc.sourceforge.net/usersguide.html)? NAnt assumes that XML files generated by the C# compiler are always located in the same directory as the compiled assemblies. Don't you think that we should add

Re: [nant-dev] L16N

2005-02-14 Thread Ian MacLean
Giuseppe Greco wrote: Do you plan to localize NAnt? I think it would be a good idea. If yes, how are you going to manage translations? Actually, compiled assemblies and XML files generated by the C# compiler are kept togheter in the same directory, letting NDoc find them and do its job. looks

Re: [nant-dev] Windows installer for binary distribution.

2005-02-14 Thread Ian MacLean
Hi Swoogan, I wrote an installer script for Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) for NAnt distribution around my office and I would like to contribute it. Besides copying the files, it adds the nant bin directory the environment path and creates a registry entry pointing to the insta

Re: [nant-dev] L16N

2005-02-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: Mono source code does not contain documentation comments; XML stubs are generated via reflection with assembler.exe/updater.exe. Miguel told me that they want to keep user documentation separated from source code, meaning the /doc feature of the C# compiler is useless...

Re: [nant-dev] Windows installer for binary distribution.

2005-02-15 Thread Ian MacLean
plan on doing that today. My last build was 1/11 and it worked fine then. John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Geurts Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:24 AM To: Ian MacLean Cc: Swoogan; nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subjec

Re: [nant-dev] L16N

2005-02-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: Ian, looks ok - but why not get AssemblyName dynamically using : Assembly.GetCallingAssembly() ? then you only need to define the RM class once in NAnt.Core. You're right... attached to this email you'll find a better version of RM.cs (RM stands for [R]esource[M]anage

Re: [nant-dev] Windows installer for binary distribution.

2005-02-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Perhaps we should explore a new mechanism for extension libraries in NAnt, with inspiration taken from the Java jre/lib/ext idea... 4) Install NAntContrib to a different folder, and add an xml descriptor/locator in NAnt/bin/ext which describes the library. NAnt could scan the bin/ext folder for

Re: [nant-dev] L16N

2005-02-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: I figured that one out :). We could probably call it NAnt.Core.ResourceUtils or somthing like that. That's up to you... but such a name is a little bit too long and uncomfortable to be used often... you think ? Show me some classes in the core framework that have 2 l

Re: [nant-dev] L16N

2005-02-15 Thread Ian MacLean
The first step would be to create the resource files (NAnt.Core.en-US.resx, NAnt.DotNet.Task.en-US.resx, etc.), we can just start with NAnt.Core.resx for the default ( US english ) language. then replace hardcoded strings with RM.GetString("Message_Id") - or whatever name you want, and finally a

Re: [nant-dev] L16N

2005-02-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Ian MacLean wrote: output="${build.dir}/${package.name}/lib/${culture}/${assembly}.resource s.dll" culture="${culture}"> ... value="-res:${build.dir}/${package.name}/lib/${default.resources}" />

Re: [nant-dev] L16N

2005-02-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Ian MacLean wrote: Ian MacLean wrote: output="${build.dir}/${package.name}/lib/${culture}/${assembly}.resource s.dll" culture="${culture}"> ... value="-res:${build.dir}/${package.name}/lib/${default.reso

Re: [nant-dev] L16N

2005-02-16 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: ... will work just fine. Just a question: does the element automatically embed the defalut resources into the assembly, or is the element still necessary? If the name of the .resx file contains a culture part it will package it up with any

Re: [nant-dev] Documentor

2005-02-16 Thread Ian MacLean
Hi Justin, James, Justin wrote: What are the requirements for the Nant Documentor to actually generator the nant style documentation? I have a bunch of custom task that I have built but when I use the nant documentor all of the tasks/properties/types show up in the web output but it does not inclu

Re: [nant-dev] L16N - resx files

2005-02-16 Thread Ian MacLean
Giuseppe Greco wrote: Ian, attached to this email you'll find a tar.gz containing the RESX skeletons. Could you please integrate them into the project and import them into CVS? The next steps would be: 1. Decide a standard for string IDs How about somthing like 'NA1001' for errors and warnings.

Re: [nant-dev] Documentor

2005-02-16 Thread Ian MacLean
James, Justin wrote: Ian Here is the csc and ndoc tasks from my build file. well that mostly looks ok. The only thing I can think of is that : probably won't include NAnt.Core.dll unless you have a build/bin/bin directory. I

Re: [nant-dev] L16N - resx files

2005-02-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: How about somthing like 'NA1001' for errors and warnings. Could not find a '{0}' file in '{1}' Some descriptive comment What about this? Could be a valid alternative? Error messages: Could not find a '{0}' file in '{1}' Some descriptive comment o

Re: [nant-dev] L16N - resx files

2005-02-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: Hmm - well I'd like the keep the number in there - for errors/warnings at least. It will make finding the use of a given error message easier later on. Okay, but tell me which one of the following formats: Could not find a '{0}' file in '{1}' Some descriptive

Re: [nant-dev] ResourceUtils

2005-02-21 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: Hi Ian, I think it would be preferable to have a common resource assembly (e.g. NAnt.Resources.dll). you mean all resources for every assembly all in a single resources assembly ? - I don't much like that idea at all. Resources should be located together with the assembl

Re: [nant-dev] ResourceUtils

2005-02-22 Thread Ian MacLean
Ian MacLean wrote: Greco Giuseppe wrote: Hi Ian, I think it would be preferable to have a common resource assembly (e.g. NAnt.Resources.dll). you mean all resources for every assembly all in a single resources assembly ? - I don't much like that idea at all. Resources should be lo

Re: [nant-dev] ResourceUtil rewind

2005-03-02 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: what's about something like that? Giving the following resource files Global.resx Another.resx ... .resx we could have a separate resource manager for each resource file, This means storing *all* the resources in a single assembly I don't quite understand how your impl

Re: [nant-dev] ResourceUtil rewind

2005-03-02 Thread Ian MacLean
Greco Giuseppe wrote: what's about something like that? Giving the following resource files Global.resx Another.resx ... .resx we could have a separate resource manager for each resource file, This means storing *all* the resources in a single assembly I don't quite understand how your im

Re: [nant-dev] (breaking) changes

2005-03-06 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: Hi, Right now, build authors cannot control whether references are copied to new projects. I decided to add support for this (using a inheritrefs attribute on ), and while doing so I decided to make a breaking change here: references will now no longer be copied to new projects

Re: [nant-dev] Redesigned homepage

2005-03-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Troy Laurin wrote: Okay, I no longer like css. It seems like every single web page I try to design requires some combination of relative and absolute sizes that is difficult to impossible to achieve in css. For me, anyway. Basically this means I don't have anything html-y to show for my efforts,

Re: [nant-dev] ?

2005-04-04 Thread Ian MacLean
Mike Roberts wrote: task for this purpose. The included project (build file) can just contain a project element and a set of properties to set in the parent project. Good idea. Better than the

[nant-dev] Re: [Nant-users] [Help][Nant-Users][ History Of files Comitted]

2005-04-07 Thread Ian MacLean
sanjoy wrote: Dear All, I want to know the following. 1. Get a report from CVS History file for all those files updated after certain tag date for a given module. There are subdirectories under the given Module. 2. The script should ask for the tag date. 3.Generated report should contain user na

Re: [nant-dev] compiling NAnt and NAntContrib to generate MSI...

2005-04-20 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: Hi John, I just forgot to commit a small change, hold on a sec (or in case you're using anon cvs, a little longer). btw John, I was meaning to ask - how is that msi working out for you ? I'd like to start adding it to out download page for releases. What do you think Gert ?

Re: [nant-dev] compiling NAnt and NAntContrib to generate MSI...

2005-04-20 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: -Original Message- From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 21 april 2005 3:35 To: Gert Driesen Cc: 'John Cole'; nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [nant-dev] compiling NAnt and NAntContrib to generate MSI... Gert Dri

Re: [nant-dev] FW: [Nant-users] How to generate the doc on demand?

2005-04-21 Thread Ian MacLean
Troy Laurin wrote: Anyway, I might have a play with it over the next few weeks, and if I don't find any nasty side-effects with targets or other elements, then I'll submit it as a patch post-0.85. PS- no offense, but some of the code to initialise the project and process the build file could us

Re: [nant-dev] Query regading how to join this project

2005-05-01 Thread Ian MacLean
Hi Pavan, The simple answer is : - follow this list - find a bug in the bug database that you'd like to fix or - implement some functionality that you think would be useful or has been requested - post any questions you might have here. - post patches to the list good luck. Ian Pavan B G wrote: H

[nant-dev] Re: .NET 2.0 (beta 2) specific attributes for compilers

2005-05-09 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: Hi, In .NET 2.0 (beta 2), quite some options have been added to the command-line compilers. For example, for csc these are : /keyfile: /keycontainer: /platform: /reference:= /langversion: /pdb: /moduleassemblyname: Now, the question is: how do we expose these options to build a

Re: [nant-dev] [ nant-Bugs-1210046 ] Fileset fails when nested in an if block. - 0.85 RC2

2005-05-29 Thread Ian MacLean
Martin Aliger wrote: Yes, unfortunatelly NAnt do not accept types in nested blocks(like , etc.). There is pretty easy patch to enable that, which I sent to list some time ago. Gert, Ian, Scott - if you are interested in adding support for this, I'd gladly make new patch against newest source

Re: [nant-dev] Rational behind not supporting basedir?

2005-06-30 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: don't support the basedir property. Ahh pity. From an academic, developer to developer point of view I'm curious why that decision was made. I'm just wondering because obviously that's a big decision since many existing Ant scripts use ${basedir} as a property and it

Re: [nant-dev] Fwd: Filesets referencing filesets ?

2005-08-30 Thread Ian MacLean
Hi Martin, Martin Aliger wrote: Thanks, here is patch again, this time it is agains 0.85 RC3. I'd really love to see this incorporated in core. There are some implementation problems which we already discussed, though: - what should happen, if referenced fileset have another basedir ? - what

Re: [nant-dev] contributing

2005-11-06 Thread Ian MacLean
Ed Atwell wrote: Hello all, I was hoping to start contributing to NAnt by working on the bug list. Are there any recommendations as to where I should start? I'd suggest going after whatever looks easiest so that you can get a feel for how the codebase is laid out. Pick one you like the look

Re: [nant-dev] NDoc

2005-11-16 Thread Ian MacLean
Matt Trentini wrote: Heya folks, I've written a few NAnt custom tasks (some of which I want to roll into NAntContrib) and I'd like to generate documentation for them in the NAnt format. How do I do that? I've trawled the mail archives and various parts of the source code but I can't seem to f

Re: [nant-dev] need VS 2005 solution task support

2005-12-04 Thread Ian MacLean
Martin Aliger wrote: Or, alternativelly, it should not be hard at all to write task just as a wrapper around msbuild.exe as ccnet do it. Something like already do. Not bad idea. What others think about this? Maybe I'd not give up mine hard-earned build scripts after all :-) I think thats

Re: [nant-dev] need VS 2005 solution task support

2005-12-05 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: -Original Message- From: Martin Aliger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 5, 2005 02:19 PM To: ''Gert Driesen'', ''Ian MacLean'' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ''! nant'' Subject: RE: [nant-dev] nee

Re: [nant-dev] need VS 2005 solution task support

2005-12-05 Thread Ian MacLean
but maybe initially going with a plain task could be the way to go. Ian -Original Message----- From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 5, 2005 06:38 AM To: 'Martin Aliger' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], '! nant' Subject: Re: [nant-dev] need VS 2005 so

[nant-dev] [Fwd: [WiX-devs] wix2.0 NAnt'ification starting...]

2005-12-05 Thread Ian MacLean
I just saw this on the wix dev list. They've decided to use NAnt as their build tool - instead of msbuild or nmake. Its quite cool to see this - considering that the wix dev lead is at Microsoft. Interestingly - NAnts support for the c++ compiler was one of the main reasons for the decision.

Re: [nant-dev] need VS 2005 solution task support

2005-12-09 Thread Ian MacLean
Martin Aliger wrote: I don't think we need to make task compatibility a goal here. I was thinking same, but first I wanted to use msbuild, I found myself in situation where is used today. Even that msbuild is quite general system, we, nant users, will call it mainly to compile vs2005 so

Re: [nant-dev] XmlPeekTask extention

2006-01-24 Thread Ian MacLean
Hi Martin, Sorry for the slow response to this Martin Aliger wrote: This introduce new boolean flag, which disable error message when XmlPeek task coudn'd find any maching node. This is very useful in some scenarios. I think, it could be useful to community, se here it is. Thanks for the

Re: [nant-dev] [Sorta OT] Keeping .build and .csproj in sync?

2002-04-11 Thread Ian MacLean
Jason Diamond wrote: > >of functionality) but assuming that the NAnt output was fixed, it shouldn't >be too hard to add support to SLiNgshoT to the round trip from .sln to >.build and back to .sln again if you wanted to. > that would be pretty cool. Maybe you would need to have a seperate nant

Re: [nant-dev] [Sorta OT] Keeping .build and .csproj in sync?

2002-04-13 Thread Ian MacLean
> > > >I'll try to take a look at what SLiNgshoT outputs (I've long since >forgotten) to start generating some discussion on this. Maybe we could even >make a VS.NET Custom Tool (like Chris Sells' CollectionGen) that can >generate the .build file. The latest version of SLiNgshoT is broken up into

[nant-dev] CollectionGen

2002-04-13 Thread Ian MacLean
Chris Sells just released a tool for auto-generating type safe collections from an xml based spec. This tool can plugs into visual studio.NET and is pretty useful. So I've written a NAnt task for it. No unit tests yet but I'm working on them. See http://www.sellsbrothers.com/tools/#collectionG

Re: [nant-dev] ElementNameAttribute and BuildElementAttribute

2002-04-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: > I don?t know much about the development history so this may be a dumb > question. > > Is there a reason that BuildElementAttribute isn?t derived from > ElementNameAttribute. > Yes. they are performing different tasks. ElementNameAttribute is used to associate an xml el

Re: [nant-dev] XML Schema Def (XSD)

2002-04-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Gerry Shaw wrote: >I suggested it as a task for the following reasons: > >* You can't auto build a schema until are the tasks are loaded. > Is this really true ? Can't we determine all tasks that would be available to a NAnt build without actually running a build ? >* The build file might conta

Re: [nant-dev] XML Schema Def (XSD)

2002-04-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >Agreed. This was one of the first things that I dislike about xml files >that don't create xsds! Not only that, but type checking should be done >before/as the document is used. > >I also think I can get support for ValidatorAttribute(s). We may need to >add a static prope

Re: [nant-dev] XML Schema Def (XSD)

2002-04-15 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >I had imagined a collection of task-based schema definition files, >probably just one for the core tasks, which would be combined at >run-time to create the full schema definition. This way you could >include as many as you like, or customize them. > >Automatic generation

Re: [nant-dev] XML Schema Def (XSD)

2002-04-16 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >Yeah, I'm not so sure this should cause an error. I'd be naturally >inclined to go with it; thinking that if it isn't part of the task, >leave it alone. > >Checking for required values is important. The one thing that the XSD >won't do is check for required elements. It w

Re: [nant-dev] NAnt bug BaseDirectory problems in NantTask.cs AND/ORProject.cs (long)

2002-04-16 Thread Ian MacLean
Bernard Vander Beken wrote: >I agree with simplifying this. > >A note about the examples: the 'HelloWindowsForms' example is broken, is >there a VB.NET developer who can take a look at it? > >Thanks, > +1 for me. I've found the multiple basedir specifications a bit confusing. Ian > > >Bernard >

Re: [nant-dev] XML Schema Def (XSD)

2002-04-16 Thread Ian MacLean
Gerry Shaw wrote: >>Could someone go into a little more detail here? (I'm a >>little knew to nant and trying to catch up :) >> >> >>-Original Message- >>From: Gerry Shaw >> > Why not have the element class have a default >>implementation based on >> >>>the Attributes and if a task choos

Re: [nant-dev] nant.xsd sample

2002-04-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: > Attached is sample of the output for tasks I am generating. I?ve been > fighting with vs.net to get it working in the xml editor. It turns out > the more normalized format I started with was giving no help in the > vs.net xml editor. So I had to start over. This versio

Re: [nant-dev] nant.xsd sample

2002-04-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >So I did this (sent the email), then realized that if actually use the >existing file (meaning you add an xmlns=" to the project element) it >will cause problems with xpath queries. > >Before you actually build (use the build file) you need to remove the >default namespac

Re: [nant-dev] nant.xsd sample

2002-04-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >>From a user's point of view (those writing the build files) we don't >need to require that at all. Internally we could just add the namespace >as we open the document. Then, as long as we use the prefix everywhere >in code, it will work just fine. > >I'm still working on

Re: [nant-dev] Build Error - Doc

2002-04-18 Thread Ian MacLean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I downloaded the daily build and executed "bin\nant doc" and this failed. >I'm using VS.NET Enterprise Architect Edition >I don't know what other information would be usefull > Robert this is a known issue. What you can do is delete or move collectiongen.dll from the bi

Re: [nant-dev] ElementNameAttribute and BuildElementAttribute

2002-04-19 Thread Ian MacLean
//throw exception! > else > ElementNames.Add(name); > > _name = name; >} > > >Or am I missing something about the design here? > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ian >MacLean >Sent:

Re: [nant-dev] ElementNameAttribute and BuildElementAttribute

2002-04-19 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >I would agree that they do not need to be unique. But task names do, >right? > yep > >BTW. Maybe we should use a scheme like I described below to guarantee we >don't have dupl. task names defined. Right now, the first named task >that matches is always returned. > Thats t

Re: [nant-dev] ElementNameAttribute and BuildElementAttribute

2002-04-19 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: > >> > >What about following the xml serialization standard and call them >XmlAttributeAttribute and XmlElementAttribute? We could even set them as >derived classes of the serialization ones. > I thought about this. Do we get any benefit from deriving from the serializatio

Re: [nant-dev] New Documentation beta up

2002-04-23 Thread Ian MacLean
Nathan Sharfi wrote: >I thought the existing nant documentation was lacking, and also wanted to >increase my xsl-fu. Hence, I'm converting the existing documentation to XML >and using XSL to get html files. as you can see, I don't use MS' msxsl >command-line util; I use one that's available from

Re: [nant-dev] New Documentation beta up

2002-04-23 Thread Ian MacLean
Nathan Sharfi wrote: >I thought the existing nant documentation was lacking, a > Oh yes could you say exactly what you think the existing documentation is lacking ? I'm not saying it isn't lacking somthing I just want to hear your opinion Ian ___

Re: [nant-dev] no command line arg target behavior

2002-04-23 Thread Ian MacLean
Brad Wilson wrote: >Scott Hernandez wrote: > >>Instead there is a xslt file(xslt/projecthelp.xslt) defined to generate >>the help you are talking about. In the xslt file there is xpath query >>that digs up the description from targets and displays it. This xslt >>doesn't use the classes at all :(

Re: [nant-dev] no command line arg target behavior

2002-04-23 Thread Ian MacLean
There should be some feedback that there were no targets to build. Somthing like "No default targets found" and then the project help ... Ian >If nant is run without any target, and no default target is supplied via >the project element, what should the behavior be? > >I suggest that the list

[nant-dev] some documentation related fixes

2002-04-24 Thread Ian MacLean
I've just committed a patched ndoc that doesn't stop on a typeloadexception. So we've got doc and userdoc targets working again. Nathan, try nant userdoc and let me know how you find the results. I'm looking at updating the web-site version also. I'm getting a nunit WarningFail that looks li

Re: [nant-dev] Bug in need-rebuild detection?

2002-04-25 Thread Ian MacLean
Andy Smith wrote: > This is one thing that's bothered me for a while... > > > > 1) compile to a dll > > 2) change the .build file > > 3) run nant > > > > I don't know what nant does to know whether it needs to recompile... > but in this instance, it won't! > > I have to go in and "touch" at

Re: [nant-dev] Bug in need-rebuild detection?

2002-04-25 Thread Ian MacLean
Brad Wilson wrote: >Ian MacLean wrote: > >>Agreed. The basic issue is that the C# task has no knowledge that the >>build file has been changed. If we make it compare tstamps for the build >>file against the binary that sould give us enough infomation to work >

Re: [nant-dev] 'nant userdoc' doesn't work here (Was: RE: some documentationrelated fixes)

2002-04-26 Thread Ian MacLean
Nathan Sharfi wrote: >Kaboom! perhaps I'll try again tomorrow. I downloaded the thing about five >minutes earlier. > Try using the latest cvs version. It will always be more up to date than the snapshots. Ian ___ Nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [nant-dev] SourceSafe Add Task

2002-04-30 Thread Ian MacLean
Robert, I've checked this in. thanks a lot. As for the exception - I think that the approach that you've taken is correct. I don't view the "File already added " error as catastrophic. As long as the user is informed it should be OK. I think a property for this might be overkill. We already

Re: [nant-dev] Configuration File(s)

2002-04-30 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >Yeah, I was just thinking about this the other day. > >With the conversation about aliases, and paths and stuff, this seems >like something we need. > >Should we follow the .Net config standard and used the .config file like >ASP.Net? Then we can do the whole config inheri

Re: [nant-dev] Issues Related to Schema Generation of NAnt Tasks

2002-05-01 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: > >Here are the basic problems with code attributes: > >1.) Not everything is defined with NAnt Attributes. Take a look at >FileSet. The includes and excludes elements are read thought the >InitializeElement(XmlNode elementNode) method. > >2.) BuildElementAttribute does not

Re: [nant-dev] Issues Related to Schema Generation of NAnt Tasks

2002-05-01 Thread Ian MacLean
> > >>Scott wrote >> > >Is there some problem using the field/property name as the xml attribute >name? > Yes. Properties by convention are defined as upper case whereas element/attribute names we have decided to make lowercase. I don't have a problem with using the XmlAttributeAttributes howeve

Re: [nant-dev] Task Assembly Loading

2002-05-03 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: > I want to bring this up as a topic of its own. We have discussed what > the behavior of loading assemblies and custom tasks before, but I > wanted to make sure there was consensus, and a clear understanding of > how things work. > > > > Let me start by stating how it

Re: [nant-dev] Task Assembly Loading

2002-05-03 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: > >I was imagining that we would probably scan both "." and "./Tasks". It >would not seem crazy to me to have build specific tasks in the build >file directory. > >Take for example this directory structure: > >myproject > myproject.build > tasks (custom) > src >src.b

Re: [nant-dev] Task Assembly Loading

2002-05-03 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >I don't consider this overly negative, but I am curious what the build >patterns are. > What do you mean by build patterns ?? > > >Anyway, I really don't care one way or another, I just think that at >this point, without more user feedback, and comments, I don't see one >

Re: [nant-dev] Task Assembly Loading

2002-05-03 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >> > >I was thinking that the config file would spell out the explicit (but >not absolute) paths for loading task Assemblies. And there you would add >more entries if you wished. The default behavior would disappear and the >new "default" would be to use the config file. I

Re: [nant-dev] Fwd: NAnt patch to support MCS-style command linearguments

2002-05-03 Thread Ian MacLean
Committed Ian > > > > Subject: > > NAnt patch to support MCS-style command line arguments > From: > > Martin Baulig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > > 26 Apr 2002 21:43:43 +0200 > To: > > Gerry Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >H

Re: [nant-dev] nant/bin files

2002-05-03 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: > When do these file get updated? I?d like to do an update to them soon > based on the changes we?ve been making. > > Is there a process in place for this, or just build and update? > no process. They should be updated for every major checkin. Its a good test that nant bu

Re: [nant-dev] What does the task do?

2002-05-06 Thread Ian MacLean
Nathan Sharfi wrote: >The Vb6 task seems to be a copy of Tlbimp's. Shouldn't it be removed? > It does what you'd think it does - ie run the vb6 compiler. However you're right - the docs are pretty sketchy and need to be fixed Ian >__

Re: [nant-dev] SLiNgshoT

2002-05-06 Thread Ian MacLean
Sounds like a good plan. I was wanting to include it anyway as a binary. Ian >I'd like to put SLiNgshoT in a public place so that others could possibly >work on it (especially since my time is so limited). Would the NAnt project >on SF be a good home? It seems like it doesn't really warrant it'

Re: [nant-dev] How close is NAnt to .8 release?

2002-05-06 Thread Ian MacLean
Jason wrote: >I was just wondering how close the project is to a .8 release? I was reading >the To Do file and was wondering how the progress was on these To Do's. > We don't have a fixed time for a 0.8 release. I would prefer to defer that until Gerry gets back from his vacation. >I was inte

Re: [nant-dev] SourceSafe UndoCheckOutTask

2002-05-06 Thread Ian MacLean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Here is a task for performing an UndoCheckOut from SourceSafe. It should >be pretty well documented. > >On a side note... I copied the template from the work that Jason Reimer >did, should I include his name in the header or not? Just wondering what >the etiquette is?

Re: [nant-dev] SourceSafe UndoCheckOutTask

2002-05-06 Thread Ian MacLean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Here is a task for performing an UndoCheckOut from SourceSafe. It should >be pretty well documented. > >On a side note... I copied the template from the work that Jason Reimer >did, should I include his name in the header or not? Just wondering what >the etiquette is?

Re: [nant-dev] SLiNgshoT

2002-05-14 Thread Ian MacLean
s a good plan. Do you think we should move it into the nant namespace ? NAnt.Util or somthing like that. Ian > >- Original Message - >From: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Jason Diamond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL

Re: [nant-dev] New stable release?

2002-05-29 Thread Ian MacLean
Scott Hernandez wrote: >It does seem about time. But from what I see for the next milestone >release (.8), we aren't there yet. > >Maybe a maintenance release would work. Like "0.7.9.*"? > yep. I think we definately need somthing. That milestone description was fairly arbitrary and there have be

Re: [nant-dev] New stable release?

2002-05-29 Thread Ian MacLean
ng tonight's build pretty much the release if we are going for Friday. -----Original Message- From: Ian MacLean Scott Hernandez wrote: It does seem about time. But from what I see for the next milestone release (.8), we aren't there yet. Maybe a maintena

Re: [nant-dev] vb6 task docs/usage

2002-05-29 Thread Ian MacLean
Bernard Vander Beken wrote: Hello, I have attempted to complete the documentation for the VB6 task in CVS, but there are still some open items: - The output attribute is currently required but what is it exact intention? I suggest making it optional or remove it. - Two filesets a

Re: [nant-dev] ANN: New Nant Tasks

2002-05-30 Thread Ian MacLean
wow, this is awesome I was intending to work on the nunitreport stuff myself but since you've already done such a great job. I'd like to drop this one into the main cvs if you don't have any objections. oh and a small typo. The site says "This is a set of NAnt that you can use" instead

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