----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 3:20 AM Subject: Re: Ant to manipulate URL's and not only files ?
> URL objects are not even vaguely useful enough for our purposes. How do you > list the contents of a http: directory (ie you cant) WebDAV; PROPGET on the base URL will return child files and directories, as opposed to the index page. >, while ftp: urls allow > it it is vastly different from listing a local directory. > > To implement this sort of thing you require some sort of virtual filesystem > abstraction where each different filesystem can have different capabilities. > ie FTP filesystem can list directories, http can read single files, native > filesystem can detect if files are readable, writeable and so forth. > > It has been discussed before and approved I think but the work of > implementing it has not yet started. > > > The next stage for Ant would be to use FTP or WebDAV to manage also Ant > > outputs ... But this is another debate! > webdav would be kool. Ant already supports FTP output very nicely, though it could be a bit faster. WebDAV would be very cool indeed, but I think WebDAV based deployment should take priority over input. If you want webDAV input, both MacOSX and Linux have DAV filesystems which you just mount. -Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
