Re: Problem with the Delete task

[Stefano Mancarella]

> > Anyway, what is the expected behavior?
> I'm not sure what it has been to begin with, but I think somewhere
> between 1.3 and 1.4 we've changed some code and this change came out
> as a side effect.  I remember that we talked about the side effect and
> concluded it would be the correct behavior anyway.

Hmm, I understand. So now there's no difference between doing:

<delete dir="somedir"/>

and

<delete includeEmptyDirs="true" >
    <fileset dir="somedir"/>
</delete>

Right?

Anyway I've found a way to accomplish the old behavior:

<delete includeEmptyDirs="true" >
    <fileset dir="somedir" includes="**/*"/>
</delete>

This actually deletes all the contents of "somedir" but doesn't remove
"somedir" itself.
Perhaps the documentation could be changed accordingly...
I've attached a patch to do so.



--- delete.html.orig    Thu Aug 09 22:04:48 2001
+++ delete.html Thu Aug 16 15:47:31 2001
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 <p>deletes all files with the extension &quot;<code>.bak</code>&quot from the current 
directory 
 and any sub-directories.</p>
 <pre>  &lt;delete includeEmptyDirs=&quot;true&quot; &gt;
-    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;build&quot; /&gt;
+    &lt;fileset dir=&quot;build&quot; includes=&quot;*/**&quot; /&gt;
   &lt;/delete&gt;
 </pre>
 <p>deletes all files and subdirectories of <code>build</code>, but not