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Added more stuff to the todo list. 

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(e.g. Zip/Jar/Tar file systems, gzip/encoding file systems, virtual file (e.g. Zip/Jar/Tar file systems, gzip/encoding file systems, virtual file
systems). systems).
</li> </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
</td></tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
<tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
<font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
<a name="File Data-Types and Tasks"><strong>File Data-Types and Tasks</strong></a>
</font>
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
<blockquote>
<p>The file data-types, such as <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code> and
<code>&lt;path&gt;</code>, are some of the most widely used parts of Ant 1.x.
Unfortunately, they aren't particularly extensible.</p>
<ul>
<li>Redesign the file data-types, replacing them with an interface-based
API, plus a set of implementations. The API should use the VFS file
<code>FileObject</code>, rather than <code>java.io.File</code>.
This process has started, in the <code>antlib.vfile</code> package.
</li>
<li>File Selectors:
<ul>
<li>Change <code>AbstractNameFileSelector</code> to use Ant 1 style patterns
matches, rather than Globs patterns.</li>
<li>Add 'defaultexcludes' to <code>DefaultFileSet</code>. Also add a
file selector implementation that matches everything except the default
excludes.</li>
<li>Add a condition -&gt; file selector adaptor, so that arbitrary conditions
can be used to select files.</li>
<li>Add a name selector that loads patterns from a file.</li>
<li>Add more selector implementations: size and last-modified comparisons,
checksum comparison, byte-wise content comparison.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>File Name Mappers:
<ul>
<li>Add a file name mapper interface, and port the current Mapper
implementations to it.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>File Sets:
<ul>
<li>Add a file set implementation that uses a mapper to transform a nested
file set.</li>
<li>Add a file set implementation that provides the union of several
nested file sets (that is, a file set that merges several file sets
together).</li>
<li>Add a file set implementation that filters files that are up-to-date
WRT some other file. Alternatively, this might be better done using a
file selector.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Paths:
<ul>
<li>Add path implementations that evaluate to the system classpath,
and the ant runtime classpath. Or, more generally, combine this with
<code>ClassLoaderManager</code> to evaluate to the classpath of any
'library' (e.g. system classpath, ant runtime, tools.jar,
an antlib, an installed extension, or the system classes of another JVM
for cross-compiling).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>File Filters:
<ul>
<li>Add a file filter interface, and use it in the copy task.</li>
<li>Add a filter implementation that applies the token replacement that
the old copy task provides.</li>
<li>Add a filter that does cr/lf translation.</li>
<li>Add a gzip/gunzip filter.</li>
<li>Add a filter that applies character set encode/decode.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Copy task:
<ul>
<li>Implement 'preservelastmodified', 'overwrite', and 'includeemptydirs'.</li>
<li>Support a file name mapper.</li>
<li>Support file filters.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Implement the <code>&lt;move&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;delete&gt;</code>,
<code>&lt;touch&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;mkdir&gt;</code> tasks on top
of the VFS and the new file data-types. Might be some scope for generalising
'touch' and 'mkdir' into a single task.</li>
</ul> </ul>
</blockquote> </blockquote>
</td></tr> </td></tr>


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</subsection> </subsection>


<subsection name="File Data-Types and Tasks">

<p>The file data-types, such as <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code> and
<code>&lt;path&gt;</code>, are some of the most widely used parts of Ant 1.x.
Unfortunately, they aren't particularly extensible.</p>

<ul>
<li>Redesign the file data-types, replacing them with an interface-based
API, plus a set of implementations. The API should use the VFS file
<code>FileObject</code>, rather than <code>java.io.File</code>.
This process has started, in the <code>antlib.vfile</code> package.
</li>
<li>File Selectors:
<ul>
<li>Change <code>AbstractNameFileSelector</code> to use Ant 1 style patterns
matches, rather than Globs patterns.</li>
<li>Add 'defaultexcludes' to <code>DefaultFileSet</code>. Also add a
file selector implementation that matches everything except the default
excludes.</li>
<li>Add a condition -> file selector adaptor, so that arbitrary conditions
can be used to select files.</li>
<li>Add a name selector that loads patterns from a file.</li>
<li>Add more selector implementations: size and last-modified comparisons,
checksum comparison, byte-wise content comparison.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>File Name Mappers:
<ul>
<li>Add a file name mapper interface, and port the current Mapper
implementations to it.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>File Sets:
<ul>
<li>Add a file set implementation that uses a mapper to transform a nested
file set.</li>
<li>Add a file set implementation that provides the union of several
nested file sets (that is, a file set that merges several file sets
together).</li>
<li>Add a file set implementation that filters files that are up-to-date
WRT some other file. Alternatively, this might be better done using a
file selector.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Paths:
<ul>
<li>Add path implementations that evaluate to the system classpath,
and the ant runtime classpath. Or, more generally, combine this with
<code>ClassLoaderManager</code> to evaluate to the classpath of any
'library' (e.g. system classpath, ant runtime, tools.jar,
an antlib, an installed extension, or the system classes of another JVM
for cross-compiling).</li>
</ul></li>
<li>File Filters:
<ul>
<li>Add a file filter interface, and use it in the copy task.</li>
<li>Add a filter implementation that applies the token replacement that
the old copy task provides.</li>
<li>Add a filter that does cr/lf translation.</li>
<li>Add a gzip/gunzip filter.</li>
<li>Add a filter that applies character set encode/decode.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Copy task:
<ul>
<li>Implement 'preservelastmodified', 'overwrite', and 'includeemptydirs'.</li>
<li>Support a file name mapper.</li>
<li>Support file filters.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Implement the <code>&lt;move&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;delete&gt;</code>,
<code>&lt;touch&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;mkdir&gt;</code> tasks on top
of the VFS and the new file data-types. Might be some scope for generalising
'touch' and 'mkdir' into a single task.</li>
</ul>

</subsection>

<subsection name="Command-line and Configuration Files"> <subsection name="Command-line and Configuration Files">


<p>One of the goals of Ant 2 is to allow the user to easily customise and <p>One of the goals of Ant 2 is to allow the user to easily customise and


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