On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Antoine Levy-Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 1) concerning the inclusion of "" in includedDirectories
> 
>     1a) change the implementation of RM_DIR
>     in order not to delete the root dir of the fileset
> 
>     or
> 
>     1b) revert the inclusion of "" in includedDirectories and change
>     the tests + document the difference with DirectoryScanner

or our all time backwards compatibility saving option

1c) add a new attribute to <ftp> that controls the behavior.

I'm not sure it's worth it, no real opinion other than we shouldn't
break backwards compatibility just to fix something that hasn't been
perceived as broken so far.

> 2) Concerning the symbolic links
> 
>     2a) keep the code change and simply mention it in WHATSNEW.
> 
>     Then users who do not want to download symbolic link directories
>     can
> simply set the            corresponding attribute to false.
> 
> or
> 
>     2b) add a flag in DirectoryScanner#setFollowSymlinks to record
>     the fact that follow symlinks has been explicitly set to true,
>     and only follow symlinks if the user mentioned it explicitly ?

or

2c) call setFollowSymlinks(false) in FTPDirectoryScanner's
constructor.  I.e. change the default value of the attribute and
document it that way.

I'd be in favor of 2c).

Stefan

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