--- Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Jirtme Lacoste > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you modify the build.xml and change the value of the filter task, > > the filtering does not happen. In fact copy only checks the time of > > the files to copy. > > Yes, this is the expected behavior and the standard workaround is to > use the overwrite attribute of copy, this is what we do in Ant's build > file for the version information ourselves. > > [snip] > > The coloring approach Peter describes looks as the only clean > solution, but I don't see anything like this in the nearer future. > Up to then we have to rely on the build-meister to know when things > have changed that need manual intervention (like setting the overwrite > attribute or running a clean target before building).
If you define your filters in a properties file, couldn't you make the target that does the copying depend on the up-to-dated-ness of that/those file(s)? Diane ===== ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
