> Le 2 juin 2017 à 08:22, Jan Matèrne (jhm) <apa...@materne.de> a écrit : > > From a naive user point of view, it doesnt matter (to me) if I use > ivy:chachefileset or ivy:resources. > I want to specify the dependency and have a 'thing' which contains all > required jars, so I could > use external tasks/antlibs. > > Ant itself moved from fileset to resource collection some years ago and Ivy > could follow. > But I am not sure that we could use RCs _everywhere_. > In the few exceptions you have to use ivy:cachefileset - maybe multiple …
One limitation of resource collections is that they doesn’t have necessarily a basedir, contrary to a fileset :) For instance a basedir it is quite useful for the copy task, so a set of files be be copied with their relative paths to the basedir, rather than with their absolute paths. Nicolas > Jan > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: J Pai [mailto:jai.forums2...@gmail.com] >> Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Juni 2017 05:29 >> An: Ant Developers List >> Betreff: IVY-1475 - cachefileset task and its inherent limitation >> >> 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
