Hi Rick, May be the name could be <orderedfileset>
but in the java world the one with order is called list and without order is called set. filelist is a list of files which maintains the order. However how this list is filled could be either explicit way as it happens now or by way scanning though provided patterns. I not sure, why you see this differently. > files The list of file names. This is a list of file name separated by > whitespace, or by commas. support for patterns in files attribute makes a perfect sense to me. Regards, Nagendra Rick Genter wrote: > >> From: Raja Nagendra Kumar [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 6:50 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: filelist to support selections as per the fileset >> > adding wildcards support can enhance refactorings of location of >> these >> > files. I use the wildcards for best support of refactorings. Such >> support >> > of wildcards in filelist would add great value. > > Wildcards don't make sense for <filelist>. <filelist> works on names of > files that *may*not*exist*. How do you apply a wildcard to generate the > name of a file that doesn't exist? > > You are asking for a different mechanism. It sounds like you want > something like an <orderedfileset>. I encourage the ANT developers to > not corrupt <filelist> to try and do things it wasn't designed for. > -- > Rick Genter > Principal Software Engineer > Silverlink Communications > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/filelist-to-support-selections-as-per-the-fileset-tp28228769p28230712.html Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
