Thanks for the response (I have found this newsgroup as a whole to be very
responsive and community-minded). It raises two questions for me:
1. I obviously don't fully understand the 'includes' attribute: the manual
says "...list of patterns of files" - does that mean then that it acts only
as a filter and so requires further definitions with <include/exclude>
elements?
2. 'CVS version of Ant' - so not part of the 1.5 build then. Is it going to
be a part of the next release, or does this mean that there are all sorts
bits and pieces that only (and forever) exist on SourceForge (so requiring a
manual extraction and build to make use of them)?
Andrew
Erik Hatcher wrote:
>Yes, but only with the CVS version of Ant. I added a 'file' attribute to
>FileSet such that you can now say this:
>
> <fileset file="/some/path/to/a/file.txt"/>
>
>And it will create the fileset with only that one file. Internally it does
>the same thing as the basename and includes, but its much more pleasant to
>work with and you don't have to worry about property immutability biting
>you! :)
>
> Erik
>
>
>Andrew van Renen wrote:
>>I want to add a single file to an archive. Looking through the docs, I
>>expected to be able to write:
>>
>> <zip includes="${to}" destfile="${backup_zip}"
>>
>>but this returned the error: "basedir attribute must be set, or at least
>>one fileset must be given!".
>>
>>So I ended up with:
>>
>> <dirname property="to.path" file="${to}"/>
>> <basename property="to.filename" file="${to}"/>
>> <zip destfile="${backup_zip}">
>> <fileset dir="${to.path}" includes="${to.filename}"/>
>> </zip>
>>
>>That seems a little laborious - is there an easier way?
>>
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