[nant-dev] Re: NAnt recommendation...

2004-11-20 Thread Gerry Shaw
Thanks for the compliments. The tool wouldn't be where it is today without the contributions of everybody that has worked on the project. I'm forwarding this to the nant-dev list as they deserve the thanks more than I do. As you know yourself by working on an open source project, a project

[nant-dev] Re: NAnt contribution

2003-12-19 Thread Gerry Shaw
Thanks Sean, in the future send these types of email to the nant-dev list. On 18-Dec-03, at 11:43 AM, Foy, Sean wrote: I recently found that NAnt could not build one of my solutions using the solution task and, finding nothing in the bugs database, decided to do something about it. My project

[nant-dev] Fwd: NAnt contribution

2003-12-19 Thread Gerry Shaw
Bah, reply strips attachments... Here is the attachment for the fix from Sean Foy. nant-interop-fix.zip Description: Zip archive

RE: [nant-dev] Substring?

2003-03-13 Thread Gerry Shaw
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Arjen Poutsma wrote: I've already created such a regex task, which sets properties based on named Groups (?name). For example, for the regular expression ^(?name\w+):(?value\w+), you'd say: regex pattern=^(?lt;name\w+):(?lt;value\w+) input=Section1:119900/ echo

Re: [nant-dev] Delete task behaviour

2003-02-19 Thread Gerry Shaw
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerry: delete dir=f00/ The delete task will not raise an error and your directory foo will not exist. I liked the feature that Gert suggested, but I see Gerry's point. What about this: Add an attribute, say

Re: [nant-dev] Nightly Builds Begin

2003-01-28 Thread Gerry Shaw
If this process is reliable then I suggest we remove the nightly snapshots. +1 --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com

[nant-dev] List discards

2002-11-02 Thread Gerry Shaw
I've discarded over 100 emails from the list in last 36 hours because of some spamming. If I've accidentally discarded a legit email please send it again cc'ing directly to me. At least mailman was good enough to block some of the spam. ---

RE: [nant-dev] Environment Task

2002-10-05 Thread Gerry Shaw
Use the sysinfo task. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller Sent: October 3, 2002 11:36 AM To: Nant-Developers (E-mail) Subject: [nant-dev] Environment Task Am I missing something. Is there a task that will let me retrieve

[nant-dev] FW: NAnt Patch

2002-06-26 Thread Gerry Shaw
to be replaced or spun off as a separate project. I just whipped it up as an example of nant was designed to be used. -Original Message- From: Brian Ritchie To: Gerry Shaw Sent: Wed, June 26, 2002 11:00 AM Subject: NAnt Patch I'm not sure if you're the right one to send this to, so let me know if I

RE: [nant-dev] Loop Task

2002-06-24 Thread Gerry Shaw
Can you help the slower people in the group by explaining a bit more about the foreach task. I can see how it could print out all the properties * What do you plan on doing with it? * What is the syntax for iterating over the containers? * What containers can you iterate over? properites,

RE: [nant-dev] Old business

2002-06-24 Thread Gerry Shaw
I'm in favor on the config stuff for defining how tasks run. The complier tasks beg for this feature. I'm not sure why we need case insensitivity in filesets. Is it really that hard to write the paths with the correct case? If I'm missing something please bring it up. If its really a big

[nant-dev] FW: NAntTask Patch

2002-06-24 Thread Gerry Shaw
What do people think of this? IMO the neseted properties for the nant task seems to fall into line with the concept of Tomas's optionset idea. -Original Message- From: Mark Griffiths [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon, June 24, 2002 2:32 AM To: Gerry Shaw Subject: RE: NAntTask Patch

RE: [nant-dev] FileSet includes question

2002-06-23 Thread Gerry Shaw
solving your problem this way rather than the comma seperated include pattern. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin Dente Sent: Sun, June 23, 2002 6:12 PM To: Gerry Shaw; 'Nant developer's list' Subject: RE: [nant-dev] FileSet

RE: [nant-dev] Enforcing child-only projects?

2002-06-23 Thread Gerry Shaw
There isn't specially setup for this. This hack seems pretty reasonably to me. At least it doesn't require any special conditions to be added to nant to have it work. Master.build property name=called-from-master value=true/ nant buildfile=Child.build inheritall=true/

RE: [nant-dev] FileSet includes question

2002-06-23 Thread Gerry Shaw
I was thinking about the id'ed FileSet's. Here is what would need changing: * Add an Id property to the FileSet class I'm kind of curious about why implement it this way it seems to me, that everything in the buildfile should be able to be referenced by an ID, so I'd think a

RE: [nant-dev] FileSet includes question

2002-06-22 Thread Gerry Shaw
The docs are wrong. I shamelessly compied from directly from Ant :) and I must have missed that. I'm not sure it adds anything that you could already do with multiple include tags. I perfer things to be really obvious at the expense of more typing since you only have type stuff once but it

RE: [nant-dev] id/idref in NAnt

2002-06-22 Thread Gerry Shaw
Has anybody looked at adding the id/idref of Ant to NAnt? It's looking to me like very useful feature. On paper (I have never used it) this features sounds pretty cool. I think it would be a great contribution to have but might be tricky to code. It would require changes to the nant.core so

RE: [nant-dev] Unit Tests Missing

2002-06-03 Thread Gerry Shaw
Great list Scott! Here is a somewhat subjective ranking of them: Easy and important: Call Copy Delete Echo Fail Mkdir Move Property Hard but important: Ndoc Script Sleep Style Zip Not as important (non-core tasks): Al Cl Gac Mcs Rc Tlbexp Typedcollection -Original Message- From:

RE: [nant-dev] Friday Release Tasks

2002-06-01 Thread Gerry Shaw
Which is why the offer still stands that if anybody has an ASP.NET server that they would like to denote as the official nant build server I'd be happy to help them set it up. The build server would watch cvs and do builds anytime a commit is made and send out an email on the result. Right, I

RE: [nant-dev] New Nant Property

2002-06-01 Thread Gerry Shaw
Seeing how we already have nant.filename I can't really see the harm in also adding a nant.home environment variable that would do what Tomas wants. You can see the list of variables that nant is suppose to define here: http://nant.sourceforge.net/help/fundamentals/fog82.html Also to

[nant-dev] NAnt bug BaseDirectory problems in NantTask.cs AND/OR Project.cs (long)

2002-04-16 Thread Gerry Shaw
no end of trouble (and are once again broken). -Original Message- From: Bernard Vander Beken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue, April 16, 2002 3:55 AM To: Gerry Shaw Subject: RE: NAnt bug : BaseDirectory problems in NantTask.cs AND/OR Project.cs Thanks, but this does

RE: [nant-dev] NAnt bug BaseDirectory problems in NantTask.cs AND/OR Project.cs (long)

2002-04-16 Thread Gerry Shaw
/Parent.build nant - subdir/Child.build What will be the basedir for the child.build Project? (/subdir/ or /) Assuming you what you meant by your notation means: Parent.build project nant buildfile=subdir/Child.build/ /project The basedir of the child.build would be the same as