I'm quite late to this party, but bear in mind Ant 1.7 also includes a <files>
collection which has no basedir whatsoever if you ever need to combine files
from various volumes.
HTH,
Matt
--- On Sun, 5/3/09, Patrik Nagel <patrik.na...@gmx.ch> wrote:
> From: Patrik Nagel <patrik.na...@gmx.ch>
> Subject: Re: fileset based on paths in file
> To: "David Weintraub" <qazw...@gmail.com>, "Ant Users List"
> <user@ant.apache.org>
> Date: Sunday, May 3, 2009, 12:39 PM
> It's for a fileset. I tried the
> "includesfile" attribute from the
> fileset task. It does exactly what I'm looking for!
>
> Tanks a lot!
> Patrik
>
> David Weintraub wrote:
> > Is this for a path or a fileset? There's a big
> difference. A path is
> > simply a collection of directories while a fileset
> selects files in a
> > directory.
> >
> > If this is for a path, you could use a properties file
> and separate
> > those directories via a colon or semicolon.
> >
> > If this is a fileset, you can try using the
> "includefile" attribute.
> > For example:
> >
> > <fileset dir="/"
> >
> includefile="${my.include.file}/>
> >
> > And the include file will look like this:
> >
> > home/dev/src/reporting/**
> > home/dev/src/common/**
> > home/testing/src/logger/**
> >
> > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Patrik Nagel <patrik.na...@gmx.ch>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I would like to create a fileset based on paths
> which have no base directory
> >> in common. Additionally, the paths are stored in a
> text file.
> >>
> >> Such a text file might looks as follows:
> >> /home/dev/src/reporting
> >> /home/dev/src/common
> >> /home/testing/src/logger
> >>
> >> Is there a way to read the paths from the text
> file and "add" them to a
> >> fileset? Within this fileset I would apply a
> filename selector to collect
> >> all build.xml files. Note that the fileset is used
> as a child within an
> >> ivy:buildlist task.
> >>
> >> Any help would be appreciated!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Patrik
> >>
> >>
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