Bug 37200

Summary:	Split task
Product:	Ant	Reporter:	Dale Anson <danson>
Component:	Core tasks	Assignee:	Ant Notifications List <notifications>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	Keywords:	PatchAvailable
Priority:	P2
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	other
Attachments:	Split task source code. Unit test for Split task. Documentation for Split task

Description Dale Anson 2005-10-21 21:10:44 UTC

This request is to submit a candidate for a Split task to Ant.  This task splits
a file or property value into a number of smaller files.  This request
originated on the Ant user mailing list, here is part of a message from Matt
Benson on Oct 19, 2005:

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Since cat and split are historically related, I would be +1 to adding a
contributed Java split implementation to Ant core, if anyone cares to submit one.

-Matt
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Currently, this task is part of the extra tasks distributed with Antelope
(http://antelope.tigris.org).  Unit tests for the task are available, but the
unit test relies heavily on other Antelope tasks, which may or may not be a problem.

Comment 1 Dale Anson 2005-10-21 21:13:57 UTC

Created attachment 16772 [details]
Split task source code.

Will need modification:

1) Currently does not have a license.  This was originally distributed under
Apache 1.1 license, no problem to upgrade to later Apache license.

2) Package needs to be modified as appropriate.

Comment 2 Dale Anson 2005-10-21 21:15:14 UTC

Created attachment 16774 [details]
Unit test for Split task.

This unit test relies heavily on other tasks from Antelope.

Comment 3 Dale Anson 2005-10-21 21:17:49 UTC

Created attachment 16775 [details]
Documentation for Split task

Originally generated from docbook xml format. I can supply the original xml if
that would be more appropriate.

Comment 4 Matt Benson 2005-10-21 21:19:59 UTC

Thanks, Dale.  I have downloaded these and will be looking as time permits.