[gobo-eiffel-develop] Re: another point regarding FILE_SET

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

Sven Ehrke wrote:
> 
> Hello Eric,
> 
> so far the FILE_SET class has several queries for the included files, the excluded files, and many others
> which more or less have to do with set operations. This is due to the fact that I would like to make file sets
> available for geant.
> This morning I had the idea the the FILE_SET class should only support one set of files so that there would
> be only one query instead of all those it supports now. Then there could be commands like `subtract', `add'
> `intersect' and so on. The <fileset> task/command internally would use two FILE_SETS internally: one for
> the things to include and one for the things to exclude. I am quite sure that I can reuse a lot from DS_SET.
> This would make FILE_SET much smaller and more flexible.

I promise that as soon as I come back home this weekend
I'll stop working on other things and review your file-set
implementation. But in the meantime your idea above seems
interesting indeed.

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