You know with Ant 1.5 you can create your own subclasses to PatternSet and <typedef> them and use them. And you can refid use them where a patternset is used. Would that do what you want?
----- Original Message ----- From: "stephan beal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [Bug 7482] - PatternSet.setIncludes() does not SET includes, but appends them to a list > On Tuesday 26 March 2002 18:25 pm, Diane wrote: > > How about adding a reset() or resetPatterns(boolean includes, boolean > > excludes) method on PatternSet, that Stephan can call explicitly!?!?! That > > way's everybody's happy, and a PatternSet instance can be reused to match > > something else? Haven't looked at any code, but it seems that would work > > for Stephan... --DD > > Sounds like a perfectly good solution for me... except that i cannot access > the pattern set belonging to the MatchedTask/Zip/Jar tasks because there are > no accessors for it (and it's not public/protected). What i was attempting > was not something very many people are gonna try. The workarounds to make all > that work would create more mess than it's worth.Erik's point about: > <patternset id="patternset" includes="...."> > <include name="..."/> > </patternset> > > shows clearly why it needs to append rather than set. i was primary confused > by the setter not setting, which is as much a doc bug as an implementation > bug. > > ----- stephan > Generic Unix Computer Guy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.einsurance.de > Office: +49 (89) 552 92 862 Handy: +49 (179) 211 97 67 > "...control is a degree of inhibition, and a system which is perfectly > inhibited is completely frozen." -- Alan W. Watts > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
