Re: Understanding directory-based tasks referred to by ID

2002-12-27 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Chris Brown wrote: 3./ If any of the fileset's attributes are based on expanded properties, such as dir="${build}/lib/*.jar", when is this expansion performed? For example, what happens if the fileset elements are defined outwith any task or target,

Re: Understanding directory-based tasks referred to by ID

2002-12-27 Thread Chris Brown
> > 3./ If any of the fileset's attributes are based on expanded > > properties, > > such as dir="${build}/lib/*.jar", when is this expansion performed? > > For > > example, what happens if the fileset elements are defined outwith any > > task > > or target, containing an expandable property, only

Re: Understanding directory-based tasks referred to by ID

2002-12-27 Thread Erik Hatcher
I'll have a crack at answering this, although its possible I'll get something incorrect somewhere along the lines and others can correct... On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 10:34 AM, Chris Brown wrote: 1./ When is the collection of files in a fileset "built"? (a) when the fileset element (

Understanding directory-based tasks referred to by ID

2002-12-26 Thread Chris Brown
Hello, Hopefully someone can provide a clear answer about some issues concerning directory-based tasks (FileSet, etc.) that are -- for me -- ambiguous. When using embedded filesets, in tasks such as , , , etc., it's all clear what's happenning. Nevertheless, my build files sometimes repeat the