From: Scott H. <sk...@eo...> - 2002-07-31 17:19:21
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There was a discussion a ways back about supporting id/ref stuff for elements (including filesets). I'm not sure how properties would work for this. Right now there isn't really support for any type of property other than a string; and in-fact, the property add methods takes a string key and value. I assume you want to reuse a fileset in multiple places. How do you feel about the id/ref idea? It would look something like this. <fileset id="myfileset" basedir="baz"> <includes name="**/*.cs"/> <excludes name="foo.cs"/> </ > <fileset ref="myfileset"/> <!-would be the same as embedding the above fileset--> You may want to look through the archives for more information. I think there was a lengthy discussion (> 5 emails) about it. -----Original Message----- From: nan...@li... [mailto:nan...@li...] On Behalf Of Lalonde, Paul Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 10:08 AM To: 'nan...@li...' Subject: [nant-dev] filesets and properties I was mucking around with Nant, and found myself needing a persistent fileset, and was thinking about a syntax that merges the idea with a property. How do people feel about: <property name="myfileset" basedir="baz"> <includes name="**/*.cs"/> <excludes name="foo.cs"/> </property> <echo message="${myfileset}"/> would print (assuming my directory had foo.cs, bar.cs, qux.cs): baz/bar.cs baz/qux.cs (it could resolve to full pathnames if that makes sense) Paul |