Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 82050 invoked from network); 7 May 2000 20:33:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.76.144.69) (192.76.144.69) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 7 May 2000 20:33:40 -0000 Received: from sbodewig.bost.de ([195.127.75.69]) by smtp01do.de.uu.net (5.5.5/5.5.5) with ESMTP id KAA12988 for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 10:28:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from bodewig@localhost) by sbodewig.bost.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA08533; Fri, 5 May 2000 10:27:46 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: sbodewig.bost.de: bodewig set sender to bodewig@bost.de using -f To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Task functionality next version Ant References: From: Stefan Bodewig Date: 05 May 2000 10:27:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Kuiper, Arnout"'s message of "Fri, 5 May 2000 09:58:35 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0806 (Gnus v5.8.6) XEmacs/21.1 (Canyonlands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N >>>>> "KA" == Kuiper, Arnout writes: KA> Now we are talking about task functionality here, how about KA> defining some for the next version Ant. I agree with all of what you've written and just want to add that move would probably need a "forceoverwrite" attribute, too. The optional RenameExtensions tasks lokks a little bit as if it belonged into the move category. I'm not sure. IIRC Thomas Haas has written a task that consolidates text manipulation taks (FixCRLF, KeySubst, Replace). Expand and Zip could be put together into a single task. Other task cleanups? Stefan