I guess I should be clearer on my use case. I want to use the differential file set to specify the source files in a javac task. As far as I can tell, the javac task accepts fileset elements but not filesets or resource collections. Is there a way to do this?
Thank you. Alan > On Nov 19, 2016, at 9:08 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 2016-11-19, Alan Snyder wrote: > >> I would like to define a file set containing files selected by one pattern >> set but excluding those defined by a second pattern set. > >> Is there a way to do this? > > Kind of. You can get a resource colection by using <difference> on two > <fileset>s each one with one of the pattern sets. > > The alternative is to replace the <patternset>s with selectors, likely > <filename>, and use some <or>s and <not>s. This will yield a <fileset>. > > Stefan > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
