On my end, I'll make sure IO filters can interoperate with PathMatchers if
they don't already...
Gary
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 09:10 Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 8:12 AM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 7:20 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold
> > <elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what you are proposing. Adding a new filter to IO that
> > behaves like Ant? Adding a new filter to IO that behaves like Python?
> > Are Ant and Python expressions _exactly_ the same_? Even if they are
> > the same today, what happens when Python decides to change?
>
> I'm mostly interested in Maven, whose syntax is at least exactly the
> same as Ant's used to be when the code was copied years ago. It's
> probably still the same today.
>
> More generally, I think Python glob is evidence that developers want
> and need something like this. That is, it's useful to have file globs
> with ?, *, and ** but not full regexps. It seems that would be a
> generally useful thing for Commons IO.
>
> Except now I have just discovered (via Wikipedia) that Java 7+ in fact
> already has PathMatcher.getMatcher("glob") and maybe that will do all
> of this? Need to explore further.
>
> --
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
> elh...@ibiblio.org
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