RE: enhancement for PropertyFile, have a patch

2005-09-02 Thread Phil Hourihane
Hi folks, Following a suggestion from Antoine I had a look at filterchains and thought about the degree to which the functionality of the PropertyFile task could be expressed in terms of filterchains, and whether that work would be fruitful, and would render the proprosed modification to PropertyF

RE: enhancement for PropertyFile, have a patch

2005-09-02 Thread Phil Hourihane
Antoine, I'll certainly have a look at the filterchain stuff and see how much overlap there is between the work I did and that. The meterial that I prepared is only in passing a patch to PropertyFile, the main piece of any interest is a subclass of Properties which retains the format of the input

Re: enhancement for PropertyFile, have a patch

2005-09-02 Thread Antoine Levy-Lambert
Hello Phil, I wonder whether, instead of patching PropertyFile, you should not study how the framework works and implement the functionalitiy of propertyfile as a filter. Then it should be possible to change the implementation of propertyfile to make it use filters. To my opinion, all tasks which

RE: enhancement for PropertyFile, have a patch

2005-09-02 Thread Burgess, Benjamin
+1 - excellent proposal -Original Message- From: Antoine Levy-Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 10:03 AM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: enhancement for PropertyFile, have a patch Hello Phil, I wonder whether, instead of patching PropertyFile, you sh

RE: programmatically creating and marshalling antfiles

2005-09-02 Thread Jose Alberto Fernandez
> From: jonathan gold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jose Alberto Fernandez wrote: > > > > Maybe we are looking at the problem the wrong way. > > What is what people want to do? > > Do they want to programatically create some project and then > > as an after thought they decide to serialize it to