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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:39:54 +0200
From: Gianugo Rabellino <gianugo@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: DirectoryGenerator source-oriented refactoring
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Sylvain Wallez wrote:

> 
> My cache implementation deals with SourceValidity instead of 
> lastModified(), which allows caching for sources where lastModified 
> isn't available (e.g. a CVS directory, or a tagged CVS source which can 
> go back in time if the tag is moved). Also, I added a "directories-only" 
> parameter which automatically filters regular files (it can be 
> needlessly expensive to get infos on them and later discard them in the 
> pipeline).
> 
> But my implementation started from the 2.0 DirectoryGenerator which 
> hasn't all the fancy sort stuff. So I think a merge is actually what's 
> needed.

Be my guest. ;-) If I can be of any help, just let me know.

> And while we're at refactoring, what do you think of having separate 
> regexps for directories and files ? This would be really useful since 
> their respective naming rules are totally different. E.g. if I want only 
> .xml files, the regexp has to be "^[^.]*$|\.xml$", which looks quite 
> ugly when the file regexp would simply be "\.xml$".

How do you plan to express that in the component configuration? I'm 
afraid it might start being overcomplicated...

Ciao,

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Gianugo Rabellino
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