How about we add an optional 'file' attribute to <fileset> that will do this automatically and create a single file fileset? This is one of my biggest frustrations with Ant, actually.
This would not solve the issue posted here, but would probably make a lot of folks lives easier, including mine! :) Sorry for the delayed reply on this one. Erik Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Alexey Solofnenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> often I have a (relative) path to some file and I want to do >> something with the file in ANT. However <fileset dir="." >> includes="${path}"/> does not work, because the path is something >> like "../dir1/dir2/file" - outside of the current directory >> structure. How can I deal with this? > > > Use <dirname> to create something for <fileset>'s dir attribute and > <basename> for the includes part. > > Stefan > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>