Hi Ian, I wrote some prototype code earlier today. If I wrap them up in tasks and send them to you (or someone) to help me structure it to suit the NAnt project requirements?
---------------------------------------- - Mitch Denny - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.monash.net - +61 (414) 610141 - > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:20 PM > To: Mitch Denny > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Mitch, > The xmlpeek and poke tasks could be very useful for a build > issue we are having currently. Out .config files default to > haveing a defaultframework attribute of net-1.0. However on > a 1.1 only platform we need to take a copy and change that > attribute to net-1.1 or whatever the current framework is. I > was going to write a custom task to do it but <xmlpoke> looks > like a better - more generalised way of doing it. > Ian > > >. The next three tasks which I > >plan on producing might be of more general use: > > > > <xmlpeek filename="<path to xml file>" path="<xpath > expression to find > >element or attribute>" property="<property to populate with > >value>" /> > > <xmlpoke filename="<path to xml file>" path="<xpath > expression to find > >element or attribute>" value="<property to get the new value > >from>" /> > > <incrementversion property="<property holding a valid > version number > >string>" part="build" /> > > > >The idea here is that with these three tasks you can do things like > >maintain a build version file in a project configuration file. I > >learned yesterday that Visual Build actually keeps a build number in > >the .bld file, and I was contemplating using the above tasks > to emulate > >that by using the peek and poke commands to set some global > project properties. > >I would be interested in peoples thoughts on this. These new tasks > >combined with the stock standard NAnt tasks pretty much take care of > >the whole build versioning process. > > > >I'll happily donate what I can (if anyone is interested). > But it will > >have to wait until I can rewrite what I have to comply with the NAnt > >project coding standards and unit test requirements. > > > >---------------------------------------- > >- Mitch Denny > >- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >- http://www.monash.net > >- +61 (414) 610141 > >- > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
