Add XDTHelper

[brianary]

Add support for invoking config file changes manually using idiomatic
FAKE syntax.

[forki]

Please remove auto open. We try to get rid of this.

[forki]

How does this relate to https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE/blob/master/src/app/FakeLib/XMLHelper.fs#L182?

Can you please add some unit tests?

[brianary]

XMLHelper.XMLTransform uses XSLT, while XDTHelper uses Microsoft's XML
Document Transforms, a syntax optimized for making changes to config files.
(It was already referenced in the project, so there must be some awareness
of them.)
An argument could be made to move the functions into ConfigurationHelper,
though XDT aren't exclusively meant for config files, they can be a simple
alternative to full XSLT when only small changes are desired.
Moving the functions into XMLHelper could be done, but care would need to
be taken to prevent confusion between the two transformation types.

I should be able to add tests. What testing framework is that? Why are the
tests in C#?

Thanks for the quick reply.

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How does this relate to
https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE/blob/master/src/app/FakeLib/XMLHelper.fs#L182?

Can you please add some unit tests?

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[forki]

The testing framework is https://github.com/machine/machine.specifications

we use C# in order to dogfood the API's from C# and see how well they behave. In retrospect this wasn't the best decision, because actually we don't care about C# usage of FAKE's API.

[brianary]

Would adding a new unit test project that uses Unquote
https://code.google.com/p/unquote/ be acceptable?

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Steffen Forkmann notifications@github.com
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The testing framework is https://github.com/machine/machine.specifications

we use C# in order to dogfood the API's from C# and see how well they
behave. In retrospect this wasn't the best decision, because actually we
don't care about C# usage of FAKE's API.

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[forki]

Why not a small NUnit project?

[brianary]

Wouldn't that be just moving from one C# testing framework to another?

FSUnit could be an option, but it sounds like that is an F# wrapper over an
idiomatically C# framework.
Unquote purports (though I haven't yet tried it) to be more natively F#.

SpecFlow could be another option, but it mostly just takes advantage of
F#'s ability to use regular expressions as function names.

I can learn machine.specifications if you'd prefer to stick with that. I
just got the impression that the rationale for that choice was no longer
compelling.

Let me know which test framework you'd prefer, and I'll get started. :)

Thanks!

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Why not a small NUnit project?

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[brianary]

Simple Machine.Specs tests added to support XDTHelper.

[brianary]

Should be ready now.

[forki]

thanks I merged it.

Could you please rebase the next time? Would make it much easier for me.

[forki]

mmh. I didn't see this before but it doesn't build on mono: https://travis-ci.org/fsharp/FAKE/builds/39173705

could please try to check?

[brianary]

I don't really have a mono dev environment on my Linux box, but I can try
it when I get home.

It looks like the Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll (that was already included
with the project) isn't working in mono, maybe?
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mmh. I didn't see this before but it doesn't build on mono:
https://travis-ci.org/fsharp/FAKE/builds/39173705

could please try to check?

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[brianary]

Thinking about it, I wonder if it's my use of backslashes in the test
paths. I'll remediate that first.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com wrote:

I don't really have a mono dev environment on my Linux box, but I can try
it when I get home.

It looks like the Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll (that was already
included with the project) isn't working in mono, maybe?
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Steffen Forkmann <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

mmh. I didn't see this before but it doesn't build on mono:
https://travis-ci.org/fsharp/FAKE/builds/39173705

could please try to check?

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[brianary]

Before ./build.sh would work, I had to mozroots --import --sync, as
mentioned in paket issue 271
fsprojects/Paket#271. (Maybe worth adding to
the script?)

After that, it built fine on my Ubuntu box, so I'm not yet able to
reproduce the failure. :/

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com wrote:

Thinking about it, I wonder if it's my use of backslashes in the test
paths. I'll remediate that first.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com
wrote:

I don't really have a mono dev environment on my Linux box, but I can try
it when I get home.

It looks like the Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll (that was already
included with the project) isn't working in mono, maybe?
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Steffen Forkmann <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

mmh. I didn't see this before but it doesn't build on mono:
https://travis-ci.org/fsharp/FAKE/builds/39173705

could please try to check?

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[brianary]

Scratch that, I can reproduce it.

It looks like it a problem with the Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll on linux.
The MonoDevelop NuGet addin has run into this
mrward/monodevelop-nuget-addin#16, as has
Xamarin https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19426.

Not really sure how to mitigate this. What else is this library being used
for?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com wrote:

Before ./build.sh would work, I had to mozroots --import --sync, as
mentioned in paket issue 271
fsprojects/Paket#271. (Maybe worth adding to
the script?)

After that, it built fine on my Ubuntu box, so I'm not yet able to
reproduce the failure. :/

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com wrote:

Thinking about it, I wonder if it's my use of backslashes in the test
paths. I'll remediate that first.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com
wrote:

I don't really have a mono dev environment on my Linux box, but I can
try it when I get home.

It looks like the Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll (that was already
included with the project) isn't working in mono, maybe?
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Steffen Forkmann <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

mmh. I didn't see this before but it doesn't build on mono:
https://travis-ci.org/fsharp/FAKE/builds/39173705

could please try to check?

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[brianary]

I've updated the tests to use the correct path separator, as I was using
locally.

In re-reading the Xamarin bug
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19426, it appears the reason
XDT is incompatible with Mono is that the
System.Xml.XmlAttribute.set_Prefix behavior does not match .NET (.NET
accepts a null and sets the prefix to an empty string, while Mono throws an
exception).

It also sounds like there may be licensing issues with distributing the
original Microsoft DLL, as mentioned in the MonoDevelop NuGet bug
mrward/monodevelop-nuget-addin#16. The
open-source version also mentioned claims not to send the null value that
Mono objects to, although Mono's behavior itself should probably be matched
to .NET for parity.

I'm not finding usage of Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform prior to XDTHelper,
though it was already included and appears in fsproj and app.config files.
I'm just wondering if there's more that's not working as expected that
maybe we just don't know about.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com wrote:

Scratch that, I can reproduce it.

It looks like it a problem with the Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll on
linux.
The MonoDevelop NuGet addin has run into this
mrward/monodevelop-nuget-addin#16, as has
Xamarin https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19426.

Not really sure how to mitigate this. What else is this library being used
for?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com wrote:

Before ./build.sh would work, I had to mozroots --import --sync, as
mentioned in paket issue 271
fsprojects/Paket#271. (Maybe worth adding to
the script?)

After that, it built fine on my Ubuntu box, so I'm not yet able to
reproduce the failure. :/

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com
wrote:

Thinking about it, I wonder if it's my use of backslashes in the test
paths. I'll remediate that first.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Brian Lalonde brianary@gmail.com
wrote:

I don't really have a mono dev environment on my Linux box, but I can
try it when I get home.

It looks like the Microsoft.Web.XmlTransform.dll (that was already
included with the project) isn't working in mono, maybe?
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Steffen Forkmann <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

mmh. I didn't see this before but it doesn't build on mono:
https://travis-ci.org/fsharp/FAKE/builds/39173705

could please try to check?

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