By the way, my task and the associated patch apply just fine to a current checkout (not 1.5 branch) so really all it needs is a commit :). It doesn't have to go in 1.5 to work anymore. I wish it could of course :) but realize that it is not likely.
-Gus "Patrick (Gus) Heck" wrote: > > Oh I forgot to mention, I had to build it against 1.5b1 because bug 1550 > is not fixed in 1.6 branch. I expect that it will apply just fine there. > I also made a small tweak to build.sh so that the tests run under 1.1 > where execute has problems finding ant.home with reletive paths. (my > guess from looking at the problem is that this problem persists through > all java before 1.3 but I havn't proven that. > > Gus > > Patrick (Gus) Heck wrote: > > > I have written a symlink task which should be useful for managing > > websites on unix or any other case where the symlinks in a directory > > may constitute valuable information. This task allows one to quickly > > and easily record the symlinks in an entire directory structure in a > > properties file. > > This makes it possible to have a directory that consists entirely of > > symlinks, and can be recreated without shell script and without typing > > in the links by hand. > > > > The way I plan to use this is to record the links, and check the > > properties files into CVS. This way when cvs checks them out it > > creates the directories too. Then ant can come along and read the > > properties file making all the links I need. > > > > I hope others will find this taks useful as well. > > > > The symlink task highlights: > > - make a symlink > > - delete a symlink without deleting the target file/directory > > - record all the symlinks in a directory tree in a properties file > > - recreate the symlinks in a directory tree from the properties file > > - failonerror or not > > - overwrite existing symlinks or not. > > - symlink deletion method is exposed as a static utility function for > > use by developers > > - I have chosen not to expose the properites file creation method in > > this task but both it and the symlink deletetion method might be > > transportable to FileUtils.java (the method in the PropertyFile task > > that I mostly copied is private). I will let the commiters decide on > > this one however. > > > > Code and Testcases compiled and run on sun jdk 1.4.0 and ibm jdk > > 1.1.8_v1 under linux 2.4 kernel > > > > Enjoy, > > Gus > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
