The only possibility that springs to mind for current versions of Ant is to define your patterns in lines of a textfile, e.g. "foo", and then set up two patternsets:
<patternset id="my.special.files" includesfile="foo" /> <patternset id="un.special.files" excludesfile="foo" /> HTH, Matt --- Milton Leis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone help with the following puzzle. I have a > carefully crafted > patternset, like this: > > <patternset id="my.special.files"> > <include name="somedir/somesubdir/My" /> > <include name="somedir/somesubdir/**/Special" > /> > <include name="anotherdir/Files" /> > </patternset> > > that I can use to ZIP the files like this: > > <zip destfile="onlySpecials.zip"> > <fileset dir="root-of-files"> > <patternset refid="my.special.files"/> > </fileset> > </zip> > > > How can I select all the files that are *not* in the > same patternset? > > <zip destfile="commonFiles.zip"> > <fileset dir="root-of-files> > _<<all files except those in > refid="my.special.files">> ??? > </fileset> > </zip> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
