Sorry Matt, I don't believe I read your reply correctly. I'll go back and re-read then post again. Thanx!
On Monday 23 January 2006 3:29 pm, Matt Benson 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] > > __________________________________________________ > 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] -- ------------------------------------------------- Clifton C. Craig, Software Engineer Intelligent Computer Systems - A Division of GBG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
