Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 32187 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2001 18:02:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slim.silverstream.com) (216.142.114.60) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 30 Jan 2001 18:02:57 -0000 Received: by slim.silverstream.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:03:09 -0500 Received: from ROSEN ([10.129.101.47]) by shady.silverstream.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id CZSCR6KV; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:59:53 -0500 From: "Rosen, Alex" To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: RE: Intended change to Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:01:03 -0500 Message-ID: <007c01c08ae6$9d683fa0$2f65810a@silverstream.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N FYI, the benefit of the prefix, fullpath, and src attributes to filesets in tasks is that now all archive creation can be done without copying any files. For example, take a look at the current Ant build file for Java Petstore. It copies file and explodes archives onto the file system, so that it can zip them all up in the right layout (i.e. so the generated archive has the right layout). Now it could be rewritten so that no files are copied - the task can get them from the file system or from another zip file, and can put them in the generated archive wherever they need to go. Alex