I understand. I wasn't doing anything like that, so I wouldn't have seen the issue. Thanks.
Barrie Treloar wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Ken Wood wrote: > > > I've just used the 'exec' task - didn't see > > any real reason/benefit to trying to develop > > a task for something that could be trivially > > done with exec.... > > We also do the same with <exec>. > > One thing to remember is that once you checkout your file its bound to > be newer than anything you want to compare timestamps for. > > For example we want to version control our *.jar files once built. So > we build the .jar file in a temp dir, checkout the version controlled > jar file and try to use the <copyfile> task. > > However <copyfile> checks the timestamp to see if the copy is necessary. > In our case this check is not correct and there is no force attribute > to <copyfile> like there is for <copydir>. > > I have not got around to updating <copyfile> and instead use <delete> > to delete the checked-out version of the file so <copyfile> works. > > Barrie > -- > Barrie Treloar > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Barrie Treloar Phone: +61 8 8303 3300 > Senior Analyst/Programmer Fax: +61 8 8303 4403 > Electronic Commerce Division Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Camtech (SA) Pty Ltd http://www.camtech.com.au > --- Level 8, 10 Pulteney Street, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia. --- > ____________________________________________________________________
