Hello dear Ant Developers,
I suggest making the Pack and Unpack Tasks a subclass of Matching Task instead of Task. Reason: Packing several files with a single task-def, like <gzip> <fileset dir="dest"> <include name="**/*.tar"/> <include name="**/*.html"/> <include name="**/*.xhtml"/> <include name="**/*.css"/> <include name="**/*.xml"/> <include name="**/*.svg"/> <include name="**/*.xml"/> </fileset> </gzip> Why do I want to compress all .html and .xhtml files? Because my internet provider has no apache module for automatic compression installed, but I want the files to be transmitted to the user agent in a compressed form if the user agent supports decompression (Accept-Encoding: gzip). Temporary Workaround: Use a Makefile like this: compress: $(addsuffix .gz, $(shell find dest -name "*.tar" -or -name "*.html" -or -name "*.xhtml"...)) %.gz: % gzip -c $< >$@ Or a bash shell script like this: for i in `find dest -name "*.tar" -or -name "*.html" -or -name "*.xhtml"...` do gzip -c $i >$i.gz done Which you both might invoke from ant using the exec task. Quirk in workarounds: system dependent. Bye -- ITCQIS GmbH Christian Wolfgang Hujer GeschÃftsfÃhrender Gesellschafter Telefon: +49 (0)89 27 37 04 37 Telefax: +49 (0)89 27 37 04 39 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.itcqis.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>