[Nant-developers] Re: request for help - suggestions

[Ian M. <ianm@ActiveState.com>]

Gerry,

I've included the whole text here so we have it on the list. I derived

BuildException from ApplicationException so thats all cool. I'm going to plug it in and see where it touches. 
Thanks for the updated spreadsheet.

Ian  



>I just started the nant-developers list at:
>http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
>
>You should join so we can create an archive of the discussions.  The
>developer of SharpDevelop is also interested in helping out.
>
>Re: Ant license.  It's a modified version of the BSD license which means
>they intended to let anybody use the code (open source or commercial) as
>long as you maintained their copyright.  Since we are taking their
>"ideas" and not their code I'm not sure if we need to do anything.  At
>worse we would have to include their copyright - not a big deal.  When I
>redo the license page I'll make a note of where the ideas came from (Ant
>& Xbuild) and include their license as a "catch all".  What do you
>think?
>
>Re: BuildException.  When I first started throwing ApplicationExceptions
>I thought the docs mentioned that you should derive a new exception type
>unless it adds functionality.  That always seemed funny to me.
>Re-reading the docs I see that I misread it so - yeah the BuildException
>is a good idea (it should inherit from ApplicaitonException).  I imagine
>that effects a *lot* of code.
>
>Re: tasks
>Attached is an updated spreadsheet of the core Nant tasks as I see them.
>I've removed the java and unix specific tasks to different pages.  I'll
>be including this file as part of the docs
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian MacLean [mailto:ianm@ActiveState.com] 
>Sent: August 7, 2001 8:07 PM
>To: ger...@ya...
>Subject: RE: request for help - suggestions
>
>
>Gerry,
>
> >The most useful thing to do at this point in time would be to 
>implement more tasks. These can easily be added to the project >and 
>provide instant gratification :)
>
> >So if you wanted to work on the tasks for ant (the basic ones like 
>mkdir, copy, move, delete need a lot of work) that would >be great.
>
> >They should support wildcards, filesets, and just do the right thing. 
>Whenever possible just copy what Ant does.
>
>
>I've started looking at those tasks and looking at Ant as a reference 
>implementation. I have a couple of questions.
>
>    Whats the deal with the Ant licence ? can we freely port bits of 
>code across or is this essentially a cleanroom type thing
>
>    I've implemented a buildException class with a location field - 
>based on the Ant code. I was thinking of having all tasks thow that on 
>error What do you think ??
>
>Attached is a table of Tasks from Ant, whether Nant has an 
>implementation yet and a tentative status field. Would you be able to 
>indicate approx status for those tasks that are not completed ?
>
>Also are you going to be setting up a mailing list at some stage ?
>
>regards,
>Ian
>
>
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