At 05:45 23/6/00 -0500, you wrote: > I am just beginning to use Ant to build my project. So far I am >having a positive experience; however, I am curious as to why build.xml is >copied to my destination directory by the Javac task. This makes it >difficult for me to jar up the results, as I have to then explicitly set >excludes for the jar command to leave out build.xml and other support files >that the Javac task copies. Why is this done? Is there any way to disable >it? I perused the sourcecode for the task and could not find any simple way >to disable the functionality. Is this implemented for a reason that I am not >seeing?
Well if that feature hasn't been removed yet it should be removed real soon now (tm). Javac will not copy any support files in future but I think a few project build.xml files have to be fixed before this can be changed. Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
