--- Clifton Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[SNIP] > ;) I must clarify that > my tone was not intended as a heated tone. It is > hard to express or > interperet tone in text so let me assure you all > that I'm not angry at > anybody. Okay, sorry for the misinterpretation... :) [SNIP] > I don't like the idea of > hacking patternset syntax into a property if there > is no such tool to take > care of this for me. My feeling is that once you > have to start reading a > property into a file and back into a property you've > taken a wrong step > somewhere and things should be able to be done > better. Agreed; I hate temp files, and many of the changes I have made in Ant can be traced back to that simple fact. > My take away from all > of this is that there is no such way to easily copy > a list of folders > separated by commas and include their contents. > Simple is being defined as > not requiring the list be swapped to disk, not > requiring third party > extensions installed to the base, and not requiiring > custom ant tasks or > procedural logic as each of these approaches involve > additional functionality > that is not part of the base set. Hmm... my solution involved nothing but built-in Ant. Pathconvert was used to turn your list of directories into a patternset. The most "foreign" material used was a regexp mapper... which should be included w/o add-ons if you're using JDK>= 1.4 ... what more do you want? ;) -Matt [SNIP] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
