Michael Ludwig wrote:
Steve Loughran schrieb am 15.06.2009 um 12:40:59 (+0100):
Michael Ludwig wrote:
Steve Loughran schrieb am 12.06.2009 um 11:49:48 (+0100):
we do strive to be more declarative than fully procedural languages,
we don't have loops and so lack full turing-equivalence. There are
also limits to what you can do in java
I think I can take this to mean "in Ant extensions (written in
Java)". So what are these limits?
getting at file permissions is one big problem; no easy way to
read/write the unix permissions. <tar> and <untar> lose stuff,
as does <copy>.
Okay, so you were talking about Java limitations in general, not Java
limitations within the context of an Ant extension?
exactly.
What you're saying about permissions reminds me of my initial post to
this list after discovering that the <delete/> task on Windows will
recursively and unconditionally remove directories - even when they're
write-protected.
I suspect permissions in Windows are not what you think they are; that
write protect probably stops you adding stuff inside a directory, not
deleting it from above.
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