On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Magesh Umasankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Let <copy> work on local files only.
+0 > 2. Let <copy> work on local files as well as remote files. > Remote files may be dynamically generated ones too. +0 > 3. <copy> must do all that <get> does. including "ignoreerrors"? Rather not. > 5. Introduce new attribute "srcUrl" to identify the > source URL to copy from. +0 > 6. Overload "file" attribute such that it decides whether > to treat value as a java.io.File or java.net.URL -1 for a different reason: JDK 1.1 doesn't really deal well with files given as URLs. > 7. Provide "username" and "password" attributes to <copy> so that > Basic authentication for http urls can be performed, when needed. -1 > 8. Introduce subelement <urlset> to be used within <copy> +0 > 9. If <urlset> is used, do not add the attributes url, username, > password. +1 > 10. Throw build exception if URL patterns that don't make sense for > copy are used - for example mailto: let URLConnection do that. Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
