[ant-contrib - Help] RE: cc outfile not consistant

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By: darius42

I like the platform abstraction that CC tasks provides around naming outfiles,
however I've run into similar issues to what Mike's seeing, with not knowing
what filename was eventually created.  This is particularly troublesome if I
want to specify the result file in a fileset so that it can be copied to some
other location.  I can think of two options that could help address this:

1) Provide an attribute on <cc> indicating whether you want dynamic outfile
creation.  This would provide an out for users who want to explicitly control
the name, and might want to violate the convention for that platform.  They
will lose some amount of portability, however they could probably compensate
for that in their own infrastructure if necessary.

2) Provde an attribute on <cc> indicating the name of a property that will be
set with the expanded outfile name.  This won't give users control over the
name, but will allow users to write portable code, and still provide them with
the information necessary to do post-processing work on the result files.

These aren't mutually exclusive so both *could* be implemented.  Are there any
inclinations on which would be more useful, or at least more in line with the
design goals for CC-tasks?

David.

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