Peter Donald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just had a discussion with someone about FileSet behaviour. Is there a
> reason that FileSet does not allow specification of a single file. Something
> like;
>
> <fileset file="foo.txt" />
>
> Currently you have to specify a directory of "." then include "foo.txt".
> However this is not really possible when the file you are using is
> userdefined. Mainly as you don't know what directory it is located in and
> thus can't get at it as ant doesn't have a dirname task.
>
> Would there be any objections to me adding such functionality?
>
A filelist type was added just prior to the 1.4 release and would seem
to be more appropriate. Whether the two could be unified, I haven't look
into yet.
Conor
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