Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Justin Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The problem was during a jar task which was building a jar of a
> > directory in the directory itself:
> >
> > <jar jarfile="foo/foo.jar" basedir="foo" />
> >
> > Ant seemed to be trying to include the jar file in itself, giving
> > the error "A zip file cannot include itself". The jar didn't exist
> > before running
>
> But when the directory gets scanned, it does (because the file has
> already been opened for writing).
That's what I figured. Running jar from the command line doesn't complain,
but I just realized it doesn't complain even if the jar file does already
exist, so it must be doing an implicit exclusion.
> > But I'm wondering if this is a bug, and what has changed from 1.2.
>
> The opposite of a bug. It is a bug of Ant 1.2 to not raise an exception
> if you try to include a zip file into itself.
Okay, thanks!
Justin
