[Nant-developers] RE: First Contributions

[Gerry S. <ger...@ya...>]

First off thanks for the code.. I'll intergrate it and post asap.  Also
I have started a developers maillist at:
https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31650
 
Please join - there is already one other developer on it and we are
talking about tasks

In the compiler tasks : 
 
why not move the attributes/filesets "down" in the CompilerBase class ?
This would make the structure a little bit cleaner,
because the CompilerBase uses all attributes/filesets the upper classes
define. The inhereting classes COULD define additional
properties too. I don't see an advantage in making all the stuff in
CompilerBase abstract and implementing the same stuff three times.
 
At first I tried this but I had a really hard time extracting the
attributes from inherited classes - so if you can figure out how to but
an option with an attribute in a base class then we can do this - and it
would make a number of classes cleaner.  The current design of using
abstract members is really just a hack around the problem.  You will
need to change the AutoInitializeAttributes method of the Task class.
 
Do you plan to use the ** syntax from ANT ? This is the feature I miss
:) If you want I could implement it.
 
Can't see a reason why not to add it.
 
 cya