XBuild status report #7

[Marek Sieradzki]

Done during this week:

- I have "fighted" with System.Reflection to pass in and out parameter
to/from task.
- All of current xbuild should be in a while in SVN. It can be used to
do real things. However to compile anything you have to use Exec task.
It can be versioned as XBuild 0.1. :)

Problems:

- Work on passing parameters took too much of time. XBuild won't
probably be able to parse and evaluate conditions in 01.09. Also XBuild
should be able to parse .??proj files from VS2005 but it will not build
it. Many more tasks are needed to execute targets from MSBuild's common
include files. (tasks like ResolveAssemblyReferences)

Tasks for next week:

- Test all of tasks.
- Make not working tasks ready (like Csc task).
- Add some import functionality (just parsing additional elements for ie
<UsingTask> in additional file)
- Make metadata references and task/target batching really work. That's
related to rewrite in Expression and other classes used by it. To be
really maintainable parsing ItemGroups and PropertyGroups should use it
now.
- Small fixes, refactoring and formatting to make some parts
maintainable.
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Marek Sieradzki <marek.s...@gmail.com>