I think some of Matt Benson's work on the HEAD (i.e. Ant 1.7) branch for resource collections can do ordering.
Unfortunately that won't help you on 1.6 .... -- Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WebSphere v7 Release Engineer WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis) João Augusto Charnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/15/2005 04:23:14 PM: > Thanks for the response. > Is there any way to guarantee the order of the files returned ? > > Thanks again ... > John > Jeffrey E Care wrote: > fileset goes not guarantee that the files it matches will be returned in > any particular order. I do believe that it will go depth-first, but within > any given directory there is no guarantee on the order of the files in > that directory, as this is dependant on the underlying JVM, native > filesystem, etc. > > To use your example, you might get back either: > > File1 File2 File3 File4 File5 > > or: > > File2 File1 File3 File5 File4 > > > > -- > > [image removed] Softway & Softcomex > > João Augusto Charnet > Computer Engineer - R&D Team > > Phone/Fax: 55 19 3739-9261 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > R. Conceicao, 233 - Cj, 609 - Centro > 13010-050 - Campinas - SP - Brazil