On 2017-12-21, Jaikiran Pai wrote: > Is it expected that the delete task with a file="*.py"(like below) > will consider the * a wildcard and delete all files with a .py > extension?
No, not at all. > My understanding based on the docs is that it should actually be the > exact file name (either relative or absolute) and for something like > wildcard support, the resource collections (like fileset) should be > used. That's my understanding as well. > I committed this change below, to use a resource collection to allow > the build to pass, which had started failing on Windows, after I did a > recent change to the delete task to use Java 7 java.nio.file.Files > API. Interesting. I wasn't aware of it working before. We probably should list that as a breaking change. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
