On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 06:57:09 -0500, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't think of any sound reasons for preserving hierarchy in > WEB-INF/lib.
Some vendors, especially of commercial software, choose to distribute their products as multiple jars. And some of them attempt to identify "primary" vs. "subordinate" jars through a hierarchy. Those jars then know about their relative locations and depend on them in their manifest classpaths. If you arbitrarily flatten your hierarchies you will get ClassNotFound exceptions in such cases. > I would very much like to see the <lib> element flatten, or some way to > flatten any arbitrary fileset. I end up doing a <copy> to flatten a > hierarchical directory before using <lib>, which is sub-optimal. Ant already has a concept of a mapper type, typically used for copy operations. It would be entirely consistent to extend its use to the <lib> subtask (which essentially does a copy in any case). Cake and eat it, too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
