Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] group task for geant

[Eric B. <er...@go...>]

Jocelyn wrote:
> I quickly made some changes and addition to geant to be able to have
> <group /> task
> the addition and changes are in the attached zip file.
> 
> I could have commited it, but first I wanted to know your feeling about
> this.
> And ... I made small changes to geant to handle this, maybe this could
> be better by having a common ancestor GEANT_GROUP
> for GEANT_TARGET and GEANT_GROUP_TASK for instance ...
> 
> But for now, my changes are safe and do not break any code. It is just
> addition.
> 
> So I'll wait for your comments, and if none, I guess I'll commit the
> changes to the svn repository.
> 
> an example is:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <project name="test_group" default="test">
>     <target name="test" >
>         <echo message="test group..." />
>         <input variable="cont" message="Continue ?" validargs="y,n"
> defaultvalue="y" answer_required="true" />
>         <group if="${cont}=y" >
>             <echo message="group started" />
>             <echo message=" ### Select group ### " />
>             <input variable="selection" message="Select a group (a|b|c)"
> validargs="a,b,c" defaultvalue="a" answer_required="true" />
>             <group name="A" if="$selection=a" >
>                 <echo message="group A.1" />
>                 <echo message="group A.2" />
>                 <echo message="group A.3" />
>             </group>
>             <group name="B" if="$selection=b" >
>                 <echo message="group B.1" />
>                 <echo message="group B.2" />
>                 <echo message="group B.3" />
>             </group>
>             <echo message="Group C" if="$selection=c" />
>             <echo message="group terminated" />
>         </group>
>     </target>
> </project>

How does it look in the schema? Is there a way to express
that when <group> appears where a task is expected, then
it should contain tasks. And when it appears in places
where a foo is expected then it should contain foos, and
not tasks.

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