Hello,
1.I use antcontrib also a lot! I agree, that it would be nice to add this to
ANT.
2.You want ordered filesets not unordered filsets, but it should be the user
who defines the order!
I sometimes had the same problem. The problem is, that filsets do not guarantee
any order.
I think filelists could help, but I never really tried.
I solved it by putting several filsets in the order I want.
3.I did not try this, but it seems not too difficult, perhaps I dont know
enough about cp.
What about
<copy todir="dstdir">
<fileset>
<include name="**/src/java/**"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
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Von: Francis Galiegue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2008 15:53
An: user@ant.apache.org
Betreff: Feature requests: include ant-contrib, unordered file sets, "cp"-like
copy task
Hello list,
I've been working with ant for three years now, and have implemented from
scratch a build system that works fine. We use ant 1.6.5.
However, I have found myself using "external" utilities more than once because
of some limitations/unexpected behaviors, so I'd like to know what's cooking
for the next version(s) of ant.
1. ant-contrib
I find myself using ant-contrib extensively throughout the project for the
following tags:
* var,
* for,
* assert,
* try/catch,
* if/then/else,
* propertyregex
I especially find var and if/then/else useful (in fact, must-haves), and find
the use of for/propertyregex much, much easier (much more natural) to use than
ant's mappers when handling complex file renaming (OK, the fact that I know
regexes quite well also helps).
Are there plans to include ant-contrib in ant itself?
2. Unordered file sets
We have to concatenate JavaScript files into one big file and then minify it.
The list of files to minify is within a file itself. So, I first tried to use
the concat task with <fileset dir="thebasedir" includesfile="thefilelist"/>.
The problem is, this reorders the file list in alphabetical order and we don't
want that! Is there a plan to have unordered file sets (which is a pleonasm
anyway, since a set has no order by definition)?
3. "cp"-like copy task
Here's a question: how do you do, with ant, the equivalent of this command:
cp -r */src/java/* dstdir/
Well, I have struggled for more than one hour trying to do this, and couldn't.
So I gave up, and resorted to using <exec>... Resulting in a non portable way
of doing things, but it's very simple and it works.
It would be very, very useful to have such a task by default.
Have fun!
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