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Subject: Re: Uptodate - need some help...
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However, you may want to have something conditional on the JAR actually 
changing, like perhaps deploying it somewhere or sending an e-mail if 
it has changed.  So use this as an example of how <uptodate> works, not 
necessarily as a way to bypass using <jar>.  :))

	Erik


On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 04:11  AM, peter reilly wrote:

> From the "book" Java Dev with ant:
>
> <uptodate property="jar.uptodate">
>     <srcfiles dir="classes" includes="**/*.class"/>
>     <mapper type="merge" to="${dist.dir}/product.jar"/>
> </uptodate>
>
> However, the jar task does this already...
>
> Peter.
> On Tuesday 18 March 2003 22:58, Ciramella, EJ wrote:
>> could someone give me a little guidance using the uptodate task?  I'm
>> trying to compare a set of jars against the build directory to see if 
>> the
>> classes are newer than the jars.
>
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