I have authored a task which uses java.util.Properties and sets integers,
inc or dec integers, or sets dates to now.
Is this a useful thing to contribute? If so, how?
Jem
At 09:52 18/08/00 +0100, you wrote:
>If I wish to edit a file is there a particular task
>that is a good candidate to derive from?
>
>Maybe the replace task?
>
>Conor MacNeill wrote:
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>> Stuart,
>>
>> > I have two questions...
>> >
>> > 1. I am interested in picking up the junit task. This is not
>> > in the 1.1 release. Is it a good idea to use one of the
>> > nightly builds? And just see if it is stable.
>>
>> Nightly builds have generally been stable. Nevertheless you are living on
>> the edge when you choose to use the nightly builds.
>>
>> >
>> > 2. In a reply (Re: When's the next stable release?) just
>> > yesterday it was mentioned about having objects that are
>> > not strings. Will this facilitate the increment of build
>> > numbers? i.e. I can read in a string as an integer and
>> > increment the value.
>>
>> The facility to use objects in place of strings when configuring tasks is
>> in
>> place now. You will see that a number of tasks have been converted over to
>> using Paths and File objects in place of Strings. I'm not sure how it might
>> facilitate build number incrementing. I think that would be a good idea for
>> a separate, pretty simple, task.
>>
>> Conor
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