One of the Ivy users has pointed out to an issue in cachefileset task[1] of Ivy here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1475.
To summarize, the cachefileset task is expected to create a Ant Fileset of the resolved artifacts in the cache(s). Ant Fileset requires a (single) basedir to work on and the Ivy cachefileset has a piece of logic which tries to determine a common base directory for the resolved artifacts. It’s very much possible that there won’t be a common base directory for artifacts if the caches have been configured to be on multiple different filesystem roots, as noted in that JIRA. So essentially, to me, it looks like this cachefileset has an inherent deficiency which can’t really be fixed. The user in that JIRA notes that we can deprecate this task (and also add a note about this limitation) in favour of “resources” task [2] which provides a similar functionality but is much more flexible and doesn’t suffer this limitation. Any thoughts on how we should go about this JIRA and the cachefileset task? [1] https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/use/cachefileset.html [2] https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/use/resources.html -Jaikiran --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
