I have fixed the problem. Antoine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gianugo Rabellino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:11 AM Subject: Backward incompatible change in <war> task?
> Hi there, > > probably some of you are already aware of this problem since I posted > about it on the Gump ML. I've never been a power ant user, and I never > participated in the ant development process so please forgive me if this > discussion has been already done in the past (apart from > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=105077339807455&w=2 I was > unable to find a particular reference to that). > > In short, our beloved friend Gump found while building Xindice what I'd > label as a backward incompatible change in the <war> task. In > Xindice-land we are using the war task together with a <lib> subtask > that points (refid) to a fileset: > > <war > destfile="${dist.dir}/${project.filename}-${project.version}.war" > update="false" > webxml="config/web.xml"> > <classes dir="${src.build.dir}"/> > <webinf dir="config"> > <include name="system.xml"/> > </webinf> > <lib refid="core.jars" /> > > where core.jars is defined as a plain fileset in the <project> section. > Needless to say, this label is used elsewhere in the file so having it > as a refid makes it more mantainable for us: I don't consider a real > option to expand it inside the war target. > > Unfortunately the Ant CVS version seems to accept only zipfilesets as > the argument to the lib element: > > /home/rubys/jakarta/xml-xindice/build.xml:336: core.jars doesn't denote > a zipfileset > > This is not easy to fix, since in turn the stable (released) version of > Ant (up to 1.5.3) doesn't allow for <zipfileset> in the project section. > So we're bitten by a chicken and egg problem, since we should either > ship the CVS version of Ant or just forget about it and let our Gump > builds fail. I don't like either option, so I'm wondering if there is a > solution I'm missing (again, I'm not an Ant guru at all), a reason for > this particular backward incompatible change, or a chance to see it > corrected in Ant CVS: my take is that not only Xindice will be bitten by > this. > > TIA, > > -- > Gianugo Rabellino > Pro-netics s.r.l. > http://www.pro-netics.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
