> From: Raja Nagendra Kumar [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: filelist to support selections as per the fileset > > > 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.
Hi Raja, I understand perfectly well the difference between a list and a set. You don't seem to understand that <filelist> is used to specify files that don't exist. A wildcard makes no sense in that scenario. ANT uses <fileset> for existing files and <filelist> for potentially nonexistent files; the functionality you are asking for amounts to an ordering of <fileset>. <filelist> is intended for something else and what you are asking for CAN NOT BE IMPLEMENTED given <filelist>'s semantics. I wish you could understand that. -- Rick Genter Principal Software Engineer Silverlink Communications [email protected] www.silverlink.com Office (781) 583-7145 Mobile (408) 398-7006 This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may only be used by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or his or her authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
