yea why?????

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominique Devienne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:05 PM
> To: 'Ant Users List'
> Subject: RE: moving slowly
> 
> 
> But this applies only if there is an existing directory 
> corresponding to the
> target. If no such directory exists, then it might indeed be 
> much faster to
> rename the directory, and remove the excluded files.
> 
> Can I ask why the <rename> task was deprecated? It seems it's 
> a better fit
> than the error-prone <move todir=''><fileset dir=''
> defaultexcludes'='false'/></move>? Involving <move> & 
> filesets to rename one
> directory or file seems overkill to me. Sure *nix only a mv 
> command, but it
> doesn't have the notion of fileset, and neither does it exclude stuff
> automatically. I'd like to know the rationals against <rename>. --DD
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: moving slowly
> 
> > If your <move> is slow, it's because <move> detected some files
> > shouldn't be moved, and thus cannot simply rename the directory
> > (although I guess it could, and delete the ones that shouldn't be
> > moved...).
> 
> No, the files that are not supposed to be moved could already be
> present in the target directory.  Neither overwriting the existing
> files nor deleting them would be very nice.  8-)
> 
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