Dominique:
Thanks for the reply. I followed the links and sure enough there is
mention of this issue. I incorrectly referred to Path.java when, in
fact, the class I had been looking at was AbstractFileSet.java (as seen
in the link you provided).
From what I gather it looks like in 1.7 I can use something called
<files> (I think its new). I'll just wait until 1.7 and worry about
this issue then. Its really not a "show stopper" for me...more of an
annoyance but tolerable :D
Thanks for the reply....
Dominique Devienne wrote:
On 10/19/05, Scot P. Floess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not sure why the source behind Path.java is coded to raise and
exception if the directory is not there...or more to the point why I
can't simply specify to <path> something like "ignore-non-existants"
<path> does ignore non-existent files, but the <fileset> within
*requires* it's dir attribute to be a valid directory. <path> is
basically asking <fileset> for the files it selects, and fileset
complains that it's 'base' directory doesn't exists. I think there's a
BugZilla request to add an attribute to stop <fileset> from
complaining when its dir. See
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11270. --DD
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