Walker Joe wrote: > [snip] > <zip zipfile="this_should_not_exist.zip" excludes="pkg_a,pkg_b" ... /> > > And then I know if i've caught everything in my pkg_* specs. > > I make no claim that this is elegant, or the best way of doing things, or > even "correct" usage, and I'm not saying - "leave that in because I need > it". Simply, that there is a use, and maybe others have found the same.
The Zip task could easily log a warning and exit early if no files match, instead of letting it run to the point of giving a BuildException (and halting the build). (This behavior should be disabled in the Jar task.) But there should at least be a warning I think. Or it would probably not be hard to create an empty zip file (bypassing java.util.zip, just hardcoding the contents; see attached prototype, constructed in a hex editor acc. to PKZIP spec). Other opinions? -Jesse -- Jesse Glick <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NetBeans, Open APIs <http://www.netbeans.org/> tel (+4202) 3300-9161 Sun Micro x49161 Praha CR
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