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From: Tim Dawson <tdawson@is.com>
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Subject: RE: does and already have platform specific code? (RE: Why can't
	<del  ete> just simply delete the directory?)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:23:41 -0600
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Platform-specific code does exist, in the <exec> task... but only for
setting the working directory on pre-JDK 1.3.

It's not terribly hard to envision a way to extrapolate that model to other
areas, but without a lot of forethought, it could get pretty ugly...

I'd agree that it's probably not worth it in this case, especially when you
can use "exec" with "rmdir /s /q" if you really need the performance boost.
:-)

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Glanville [mailto:dickon@nortelnetworks.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 6:28 AM
> To: Ant-User (text)
> Subject: RE: does and already have platform specific code? (RE: Why
> can't <del ete> just simply delete the directory?)
> 
> 
> No, not a major performance tweak.  It's just that <delete
> dir="${build.loc}"> can take over a minute with 2500 class 
> files to delete,
> while it takes only 4 seconds doing a "rmdir /s /q 
> ${build.loc}" on NT.
> It's certainly not enough to warrant the headaches of 
> introducing platform
> code.  The reason I was asking was if there existed platform 
> code already,
> then adding a platform rmdir would be relatively minor.  
> Again, it's not
> enough to warrant adding platform code.
> 
> Jay
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Duncan Davidson [mailto:duncan@x180.net]
> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 5:40 PM
> To: ant-user
> Subject: Re: does and already have platform specific code? (RE: Why
> can't <del ete> just simply delete the directory?)
> 
> 
> Are we really talking a performance tweak -- I've not noticed 
> a delete of a
> rather large directory taking much time at all. If you are noticing
> differently, then it would be interesting to figure out why.
> 
> -- 
> James Duncan Davidson                                        
> duncan@x180.net
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