Just because I'm a bastard who can't shut up, I'll
even boil my example (which may have been obscured by
setup and testing) down to a macro:
<macrodef name="copydirs">
<attribute name="dir" />
<attribute name="includes" />
<attribute name="todir" />
<sequential>
<pathconvert property="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
pathsep=",">
<path>
<dirset dir="@{dir}" includes="@{includes}" />
</path>
<chainedmapper>
<globmapper from="@{dir}/*" to="*"
handledirsep="true" />
<regexpmapper from="^.*$" to="\0/**" />
</chainedmapper>
</pathconvert>
<copy todir="@{todir}">
<fileset dir="@{dir}"
includes="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" />
</copy>
</sequential>
</macrodef>
best I can do for now, until we have local properties
for macrodefs.
-Matt
--- Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --- Clifton Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
> > ;) I must clarify that
> > my tone was not intended as a heated tone. It is
> > hard to express or
> > interperet tone in text so let me assure you all
> > that I'm not angry at
> > anybody.
>
> Okay, sorry for the misinterpretation... :)
>
> [SNIP]
> > I don't like the idea of
> > hacking patternset syntax into a property if there
> > is no such tool to take
> > care of this for me. My feeling is that once you
> > have to start reading a
> > property into a file and back into a property
> you've
> > taken a wrong step
> > somewhere and things should be able to be done
> > better.
>
> Agreed; I hate temp files, and many of the changes I
> have made in Ant can be traced back to that simple
> fact.
>
> > My take away from all
> > of this is that there is no such way to easily
> copy
> > a list of folders
> > separated by commas and include their contents.
> > Simple is being defined as
> > not requiring the list be swapped to disk, not
> > requiring third party
> > extensions installed to the base, and not
> requiiring
> > custom ant tasks or
> > procedural logic as each of these approaches
> involve
> > additional functionality
> > that is not part of the base set.
>
> Hmm... my solution involved nothing but built-in
> Ant.
> Pathconvert was used to turn your list of
> directories
> into a patternset. The most "foreign" material used
> was a regexp mapper... which should be included w/o
> add-ons if you're using JDK>= 1.4 ... what more do
> you
> want? ;)
>
> -Matt
>
> [SNIP]
>
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