Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 59619 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2000 12:26:31 -0000 Received: from bodewig.bost.de (root@195.227.98.11) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 1 Dec 2000 12:26:31 -0000 Received: (from bodewig@localhost) by bodewig.bost.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA03090; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:26:28 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: bodewig.bost.de: bodewig set sender to bodewig@apache.org using -f To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: Conditionally constructing path elements? References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001130131454.00b59100@mail.conectiv.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20001201070851.00b39d70@mail.conectiv.net> From: Stefan Bodewig Date: 01 Dec 2000 13:26:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: Ken Gentle's message of "Fri, 01 Dec 2000 07:14:23 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Ken Gentle wrote: >>Right now I don't see an easy way to achieve what you want to do, so >>maybe creating and empty directory on Unix and point the fileset >>there might be a workaround. > > The directory in question is "owned" by a third party package > (thanks iPlanet), and I've an aversion to mucking with structures > owned by someone else. In this case we may have to make an > allowance, eh? :^/ Probably. Even when thinking about how to implement it (from the XML syntax point of view) so you could drop the directory once 1.3 is out (not too soon anyway), I don't get too far. Stefan