My bad, I so seldom used uptodate after outofdate came out that I forgot how much inferior it is to outofdate ;-)
Sounds like Matt's solution's the way to go for pure Ant 1.7+, while I'd probably use Ant-Contrib's <outofdate> myself, 'cause I'm used to it, and can nest the tasks to perform directly in the <outofdate>. --DD On 7/19/07, Wayne Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't understand how to use <uptodate> for this purpose. My reading of <uptodate> is that it will set a property if a file is up-to-date with respect to another file (based on a merge mapper for my case). I currently use <uptodate> for determining whether certain operations need to be performed (setting a boolean property), but only at a very coarse level. My requirement is to select (create a fileset of) typically 10 to 50 files out of 4000 that have changed recently and perform an operation with that fileset -- such as creating a zip archive of all files that have changed since the last zip archive (my reference file) was created. Other tasks are running file-specific tests on only those files that have changed (those in the "newer" fileset). Regards, --Wayne Dominique Devienne wrote: > You can use <uptodate> to select the newer files. > > Or Ant-Contrib's <outofdate>, which I find more convenient, since > avoids having multiple targets, but it adds a dependency. --DD > > On 7/19/07, Wayne Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would like to do the equivalent of a "find -newer reference_file ... | >> zip ... ", i.e., archiving all files newer than a reference_file. I >> would like to archive only the files that have changed since the last >> major archive into a smaller, faster, "delta" archive; much like an >> incremental backup works. >> >> The <date> selector in a <fileset> looks like the logical solution, but >> it appears to only use a date-time string and not a reference file to >> specify the date. >> >> Is there a way to use the date-time of a reference file, instead of a >> string, for the <date> selector? >> Is there a way to set a property with the date-time of a reference file >> so that the property can be passed to a <date> selector? >> Is there another way to accomplish my goal, such as a way to use >> <depend> with a single reference file? >> >> --Wayne >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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