I think it would be require something like the following:

   - flag in <fileset>;
   - lazy <fileset> initialization, so <delete> can set this flag;
   - <delete> should always set this flag on all provided filesets.

- Alexey.

On 10/24/05, Phil Weighill-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Which has always given me grief. It has always seemed sensible to me that
> a fileset would simply evaluate to no files if the base directory for the
> fileset doesn't exist (and perhaps generate a verbose log mentioning that
> fact) in the same way it does when the pattern(s) doesn't match anything.
>
> Phil :n(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Mon 10/24/2005 21:15
> To: Ant Developers List
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: <delete> fails if inner fileset directory does not exist.
>
>
>
> Nothing ever works w/ filesets where the directory
> does not exist...
>
> -Matt
>
> --- "Alexey N. Solofnenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > This does not work:
> >
> > <project name="test" default="all" basedir=".">
> > <target name="all">
> > <delete includeEmptyDirs="true"
> > failonerror="false">
> > <fileset dir="aaa/bbb"/>
> > </delete>
> > </target>
> > </project>
> >
> >
> > - Alexey.
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