From: Ian M. <ianm@ActiveState.com> - 2003-12-15 08:01:31
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Not quite. Path combine just does its best to create a resonable path string from the inouts you pass it. It doesn't actually verify that the path exists or do any searching on the PATH. Having said that - a <which> task or function would be a great addition to nant. I don't believe the available task currently does any searching either - it just does an exists test on the file path that you give it. Ian Stefan Bodewig wrote: >On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Gert Driesen <ger...@pa...> wrote: > > > >>If we decide to add William's task, I think we should : >> >> >[...] > > >>- split it up into at least 3 tasks, like Ant has : dirname, >>basename, and path-combine (or something, doesn't exist in Ant) >> >> > >Well, it would probably be called <which> or something close (like >Unix's which utility that says where on your PATH a given command >exists). > >Ant already has <whichresource> in CVS HEAD and ISTR there also is/was >a <whichfile>, but I don't remember where. > >Basically, the <which> task in Ant would do the same as <available> - >i.e. look the file up in a given <path> - but set the property to the >file's location. > >Stefan > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. >Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it >help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help >YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ >_______________________________________________ >nant-developers mailing list >nan...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers > > -- Ian MacLean, Developer, ActiveState, a division of Sophos http://www.ActiveState.com |