| Summary: | The <sync> task doesn't support the nested "filterset" element | ||
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| Product: | Ant | Reporter: | Gu Dev <devgu> |
| Component: | Core tasks | Assignee: | Ant Notifications List <notifications> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 1.7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
Sorry, but this was by design... I thought at the time that supporting <filterset> would force keeping track of the info used to do replacements, otherwise that info could change, and <sync> wouldn't know about it, so stale files would exist in the target directory (not good!). OTOH, <copy> is probably already affected with this behavior... So I guess it comes down to: I needed <sync>, but not with replacement. It wasn't my itch ;-) If it's yours, I invite you to contribute a patch ;-) --DD |
My buildfile used to <copy> the scripts files to the dist directory. After changing the file names in my scripts dir, the old file were not deleted when I build. I want to use the <sync> task but it doesn't support <filterset> which I use in the <copy>. I can't use the <filter> task as well since <sync> doesn't support the filtering attribute. Here is my dist target: <target name="dist" depends="pack" description="--> Make a lite-dist of the project"> <!-- Distribute the lib directory --> <mkdir dir="${dist.lib.dir}"/> <sync todir="${dist.lib.dir}"> <fileset dir="${build.lib.dir}"/> </sync> <!-- Distribute the bin directory --> <mkdir dir="${dist.bin.dir}"/> <pathconvert targetos="windows" property="server.rt.classpath.text" refid="server.rt.classpath"> <map from="${basedir}\${dist.lib.dir}" to="..\lib"/> </pathconvert> <sync todir="${dist.bin.dir}"> <fileset dir="${scripts.dir}"/> <filterset> <filter token="SERVERCP" value="${server.rt.classpath.text}"/> <filter token="SERVERMAIN" value="${server.main.class}"/> </filterset> </sync> </target> - Gu