But it works, though, as I noticed...
[]s
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominique Devienne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:04 PM
Subject: RE: uptodate question
> I also thought of this, but didn't like the .. either which required prior
> knowledge of the relative relationship of ${src} and ${bkp}.
>
> <uptodate property="srcs.uptodate">
> <srcfiles dir="${src}" includes="**/*.java" />
> <mapper type="glob" from="*.java" to="../${bkp}/*.java" />
> </uptodate>
>
> But what you're saying about making ${bkp} absolute kind of surprises me.
> The mapper is fed a relative path to the fileset's 'dir' (which is indeed
> ${basedir} in this case ;-), and turns it into an absolute one? This would
> fail with code like new File(dir, mapper.map(relativePath))... So the
result
> of the mapper is first checked to see if it's absolute, and if not
prepended
> with 'dir'???
>
> Is this documented at all? I find it a little counter-intuitive. --DD
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: uptodate question
>
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Michael Nascimento Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Could anyone suggest a more portable solution that works no matter
> > where ${src} and ${bkp} points to? Otherwise, I'll have to live with
> > that... :-)
>
> Make ${bkp} an absolute path to start with (using <property>'s
> location attribute).
>
> Stefan
>
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