No one replied, perhaps I did not make myself clear. I have a problem where I have a list of files scattered all over the place .. the list is in a file. Then I have no problems copying files with <mapper type="flatten"/> and get a nice directory with all those files copied into it.
But there is an <exec> task that I run on these files, that generates .java from .idl and the problem is that each idl is generated into multiple java files. So when an idl file is copied with a new version, or a new idl file is copied -- I need to clean the generated files and generate everything fresh again. A process that takes several minutes, and I don't want to do this if no idl files were changed. So I thought using the <uptodate> task is most appropriate ... but here is the catch, it works the wrong way. I have a <fileset> from that list-in-a-file, and I have a directory with all those files copied -- and <uptodate> does not provide a solution comparing one to another in a way that I will know when a <copy> is going to be made. And <copy> does not provide something like the "property" attribute that <uptodate> has, though it works in exactly the way I need. Other than writing custom tasks for Ant that will give me the usability of <uptodate> with the functionality of <copy>, is there any other way that I am missing? Regards, Evgeny On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Evgeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ant users, > > I wish there was a way to use the uptodate task in the other > direction, not check source against target but check target against > source. Since my list of files in source comes from a list in a text > file, and it's easy to use a mapping to map them to the place where > they are copied to (aggregated). But I want to have a way to use > antcall or something similar if there is anything needs to be copied, > and it's almost impossible with the current uptodate task. > > Regards, > Evgeny > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
