Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 52253 invoked by uid 500); 22 Aug 2001 15:27:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 52244 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 15:27:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Peter Donald To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete.java --> Re: delete error Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:19:41 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <3B83CA58.7050903@sedonacorp.com> In-Reply-To: <3B83CA58.7050903@sedonacorp.com> X-Wisdom-Cookie: Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom. MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01082301194103.00972@helm.realityforge.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi, The problem is that on quite a few different OSes the canonical and absolute paths may differ. In particular case-insensitive file systems reak havoc and are available on all major OSes. I am not sure there is a maintainable way of doing this at the java level. However several people have asked for this and other system specific stuff. Most of this stuff can be got at Posix level ... maybe for Ant2 we could have a small wrapper around native code that twiddled with OS level things such as this .. not sure. -- Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* * "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, * * and proving that there is no need to do so - almost * * everyone gets busy on the proof." * * - John Kenneth Galbraith * *-----------------------------------------------------*