--- Gurdev Parmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to address this problem to the dev group as well. Sorry for > the bandwidth.
I've reduced the bandwidth back down to just ant-user, since this isn't really an ant-dev issue. If you have patches to the documentation you'd like to contribute, that'd go to ant-dev (or Bugzilla), but this thread doesn't really need to. > Like, the manual does not say that <fileset> inside <path> tag > can be used only for jar files and not source files. But where would you ever have a path that includes source files? What would use it? In other words, while it's not explicitly stated, the fact that it's a path datatype should imply that only things that are meaningful being part of a path should be included. > Or that path-like elements are to be used only for directories. That's only true for <javac>'s nested <src> element. Maybe it would've been clearer to have it be a nested <srcdir> element? > Secondly, I want to know why the ant developers thought that <src> > should be a path like element where we can specify only directories > and <classpath> can be a path like element which can take > jar files too. Because the <src> element specifies the source directory(s) under which it should look for the java source files; whereas, a classpath (which Java's thing, not Ant's) can point to both directories within which class files can be found, as well as archive files that it understands about, within which class files can be found. > What do I do when I want to define all the source file patterns at one > place and just use the refid in the javac task? If you can tell me why you want to do that, I can point you to the right ways of going about it. Diane ===== ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
