>
> I don't think, this really is the reason. Technically, there is no
> way to update a zip archive (call it zip or jar or war or whatever),
> you always have to create a new one mixing content.
>
> Using the approach Jon showed in his first mail (move the old archive,
> create a new one, delete the old one) is the only thing one can do -
> that doesn't mean that Ant couldn't hide this mechanism from the user,
> moving and deleting archives under the covers.
>
You know, I always used to believe that too, but once I made a comment on some mailing list (I forget which now) and was flamed to death by some guy who said he'd written 'XXXX' a popular Zip tool and he knew for a fact you could append entries. I suspect the Java classes that do Zip compression aren't so flexible...
AndyT
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