On 2009-10-17, Raja Nagendra Kumar <nagendra.r...@tejasoft.com> wrote:
> I see two methods doFileOperations and doResourceOperations copy task. Like many things that look wierd in Ant this is rooted in backwards compatibility concerns. For a long time copy only worked on files and doFileOperations was where things happened. Then we added support for arbitrary resources and we moved all handling of non-file resources to doResourceOperations so that existing subclasses of copy that don't support non-File resources can still work. > Our need in looking to this is to customize copy so that every file > copied would be replaced with all the ant properties in case the file > has reference to ant properties. It probably is a lot easier to add a filterchain with an expandproperties filterreader in a plain copy task instead of writing a subclass to achieve the same result. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
