Thanks a lot Erik. Thats clear now. Janusz -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 10:43 AM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: zipping a single file
Yeah, I guess I was a bit unclear. What I'm saying is what it says here: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/CoreTasks/zip.html Essentially you need to specify a basedir or provide <fileset>'s. In your case, just say basedir="." or basedir="${basedir}" Erik Janusz Dalecki (TYCO) wrote: > Ok, ok - maybe I am missing the obvious, but I am bit confused now. Didn't > you say in the previous e-mail that the task > <zip includes="${to}" destfile="${backup_zip}" > would work if the ${to} referred to project's base directory - like in my > case (./working/message/*.*)? > Janusz > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 9:21 AM > To: Ant Users List > Subject: Re: zipping a single file > > > I hate to state the obvious, but you need to set the basedir or provide > at least one fileset. > > As I said before, includes are *relative*. Relative to what? Well, > basedir. > > Erik > > > Janusz Dalecki (TYCO) wrote: > >>Hi, >>Eric, I have watched this topic and experimented with the solution you >>suggested. I put in my ant script this: >><zip includes="./working/message/*.*" destfile="./ear/message.zip"/> >>... and that still displays this message: >>" basedir attribute must be set, or at least one fileset must be given!" >>Have I missed something else? >>Janusz >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 5:10 PM >>To: Ant Users List >>Subject: Re: zipping a single file >> >> >>Andrew van Renen wrote: >> >> >>>>includes/excludes attributes are merged together with the ones >>>> >>>> >>>>>specified by <include>/<exclude> elements. They require no further >>>> >>>>definition, and is a matter of preference to some extent or necessity >>>>if you're using if/unless on the elements. >>> >>> >>>So then why did '<zip includes="${to}" destfile="${backup_zip}"' not work? >> >> >>It would work if your ${to} refered to patterns relative to your >>project's base directory. You cannot make ${to} be an absolute path. >>To respond to another post from you - FileSet's are not new and there is >>nothing in the works to change how they work. Some tasks that operate >>on files have been implemented to form an implicit fileset, but that is >>task-specific. >> >>FileSet's operate from a base directory, and all includes/excludes >>patterns are relative to that base directory. For the <zip> family of >>tasks, that has been mapped to the basedir attribute - tasks that >>implicitly form a FileSet have to supply their own attribute for the >>base directory, so its not just 'dir'. >> >>Does that clear things up? >> >> Erik >> >> >>-- >>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]> >> >> >> > > > > -- > 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]> > > > -- 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]>
