Mikko Kurki-Suonio wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Stephane Bailliez wrote:
>
> > No. it is dependent on the order returned by the underlying file system I
> > believe.
>
> So I've noticed.
It is possible to sort lists in Java. It might be advantageous to support an
attribute for filesets and patternsets called "order". It would look like this:
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" order="alphabet"/>
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" order="filesystem"/> <!-- (default) -->
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" order="alphabet" reverse="true"/>
<fileset dir="${lib.dir}" order="filesystem" reverse="true"/>
or something similar. Not all filesystems are naturally in alphabetical order,
so it adds an element of predictability accross development environments.
Alternatively,
you can specify a magic value or command line parameter that specifies a class
to perform Sorting for all filesets.
