On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In general, I tend to solve problems as generically as possible,
No arguments here. > Nearly a month passed between my declaration of intent to implement > this idea and my committing the task to CVS; unfortunately it must > have slipped through the cracks as bugrep comments often seem to do I don't remember seeing it, but then again I really prefer discussions to end up in my mailbox with easy to spot subject lines. 8-) > and we now have a conflict. Which sounds worse than it is, Matt. > Had I known the task would encounter such resistance I would have > saved myself the trouble of writing it. Maybe I just don't understand how useful it is? > Of the various ideas here, the path intersection stuff > sounds promising although I'm not sure it wholly > solves the issue of Bug 32631. Maybe not. > I still think FileSets with null dir attributes are valid, do not > violate the Java APIs, and stand little chance of breaking things, Probably not. But these could as well be the file collection we need. > There was a long discussion on these topics recently on Bug 5035. That must have been the other bugrep that I stopped following when catching up with my mail 8-) Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]