Greetings. I've only been 'using' for a couple of weeks, so apologies if there
is a better way to do this.
I'm starting small (!) with a build/deploy of 4 websites with several thousand
classes/files to four different environments. It all works beautifully, apart
from a minor niggle. I have to copy a number of <fileset>s from different base
directories when I deploy. As they are all ASP.NET applications, the patterns
are the same (**.as?x, **.css, **.jpg, etc.). I was hoping to have been able to
set up a project-level fileset, and then use <fileset refid="blah"
basedir="somedir"> to reuse the pattern set. This doesn't seem to work, as it
ignores the basedir= as soon as it sees the refid. This means multiple
<fileset> each with identical <include>s in them. I'm not a big fan of having
six or seven copies of cut-and-pasted stuff in the buildfile as it makes it
harder to maintain. I saw a couple of other posts along similar lines, so I
have the following workaround.
I made a file "asp.patternset" to hold the common patterns, and used
<includesfile>, e.g.
<copy todir="${deploy.server}/${deploy.prefix}Phoenix" >
<fileset basedir="${srcdir}/myDevPhoenix" >
<includesfile name="asp.patternset" />
</fileset>
</copy>
This seems to work well, and I can use it with multiple <fileset>s with
different basedirs. The only things I don't like are that the patternset is
held externally to the buildfile, which may make it harder for others to
maintain, and that there is no conditional behaviour on the patterns as there
is on <include if="${...}">.
It would make life simpler if NAnt had a <patternset> (as Ant does) that could
be held project level, and then just refer to it from within a fileset. Is
there any chance of adding this feature?
Regards
Steve Colby
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