>>>>> "KW" == Ken Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KW> I don't seem to find much in the documentation on the use of
KW> properties set by 'available' to do conditional things in the
KW> ".xml" file.
Actually the documentation is missing some more of the newer changes
to Ant (for some value of newer). You won't find the nested <exclude>
element inside the <javac> element at all.
The best documentation you can get is the source and the build files
of the Jakarta projects I'm afraid. Contributions to the documentation
are welcome.
KW> Well, I never saw "unless" in any of the documentation....
Neither did I. AFAIK the only things supporting unless are the sub elements
named include and exclude inside tasks derived from
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.MatchingTask - all(?) tasks working on
multiple files that is.
This is the current situation and I don't know whether an unless will
be added to Target or whether it will be dropped from MatchingTask
again because a better way to achieve the same has been found.
KW> For example, I'm building a target to bundle up the files for a
KW> distribution, and on Unix I need to copy some "sh" files into the
KW> 'bin' directory, but on windows I need to copy some "bat" files
KW> into the bin directory.
copydir is derived from MatchingTask, maybe you can use something like
<available file="C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT" property="os.is.windows" />
<copy src="src/bin" dest="dest/bin">
<exclude name="**/*.bat" unless="os.is.windows" />
<exclude name="**/*.sh" if="os.is.windows" />
</copy>
Or you could use exec tasks and set the os attribute - which would
mean an exec task for every flavour of Unix you want to support.
HTH
Stefan
