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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16780 copy with <filterset> corrupts binary files ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-04 23:11 ------- There's absolutely nothing in the Filterset docs that indicates that they should only be used on text files. I appreciate that there's a warning (bold text, even!) in the "Using Ant:Token Filters" section. That section doesn't mention filtersets, though, so anyone who greps for "filterset" will miss the warning. Furthermore, there's no warning on the Filterset documentation page itself /manual/CoreTypes/filterset.html) or even in the docs for the copy task. The "Using Ant" page is very helpful for newbies, but for people who've been using ant for a long time the actual task docs are the place to start, not the "Using Ant" page. My request: If filterset is indeed behaving properly by munging my binary files, please document that behavior on the filterset page of the manual! IMHO that behavior violates the Law of Least Astonishment, and therefore merits some documentation. Gus: I can make the copy in 2 passes (binaries, then text-only), but that's a real pain to do and it's fragile. It's also twice as much code to maintain. Instead I copy everything, and then used the replace task to do the filtering. It's a bit ugly, but it works. So much for filtersets...
