Hi,
The AbstractCopyTask and SourceTask types both have a defaultSource property,
which is used by plugins to specify the default source files for the task. It
is used for the following tasks:
process*Resources
compile*Java
compile*Groovy
compile*Scala
checkstyle*
codeNarc*
The problem with this approach is that it is difficult to add extra source
files to the default set. For example:
processResources {
from 'some/extra/dir'
}
This replaces the default source files, rather than adding the extra directory.
This is inconsistent with most of the DSL, where a statement like this would
add the directory to the existing values.
I propose we do away with 'defaultSource' for the above tasks.
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Adam Murdoch
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