RE: Relative classpaths for a manifest

2005-03-07 Thread Dominique Devienne
> From: Abbey Sparrow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is this the only way to do this, or is there some other, > better method I am missing? As others have indicated, is the way to go, and still as indicated, it can be tricky to get right. I used to do that, but now I have a nice little task that

Re: Relative classpaths for a manifest

2005-03-07 Thread James Abley
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 22:37, Abbey Sparrow wrote: > I have been looking at pathconvert, on jeffery and martin's suggestion > (and am a little amazed I didn't see it earlier), however... it seems I > either have to standardize on the platform ant is running on or create > some logic to convert th

Re: Relative classpaths for a manifest

2005-03-06 Thread René Ghosh
Ants' Pathconvert task will enable you to convert one path ointo another, and supports nested mapper tasks that can do search&replace, or even (in version 1.6.2) "flatten" all paths into sole jar filenames for easy J2EE deployement. --- Abbey Sparrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently

Re: Relative classpaths for a manifest

2005-03-06 Thread Abbey Sparrow
I have been looking at pathconvert, on jeffery and martin's suggestion (and am a little amazed I didn't see it earlier), however... it seems I either have to standardize on the platform ant is running on or create some logic to convert the os.name property to the valid target strings for the pa

Re: Relative classpaths for a manifest

2005-03-06 Thread Jeffrey E Care
-- Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WebSphere Build SWAT Team Lead WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis) https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/mantis Abbey Sparrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/06/2005 03:01:15 AM: > I am currently jumping through a couple of hoops in order to g

Re: Relative classpaths for a manifest

2005-03-06 Thread Martin Cooper
Yes, I think that qualifies as jumping through hoops. ;-) You might want to try for this, which will get you down to just a few lines. One gotcha to keep in mind - you'll want to canonicalise your root path first so that the substring always matches. (Sorry, I don't have an example handy right