Ok Jeff.
I take the documentation of the base and close this.. Though I would
personally loved this to be resolved differently by way of parent and child
approach or by some global defaults automatically initialized in this
context.
Regards,
Nagendra
Jeffrey E Care wrote:
>
> Raja Nagendra Kumar <nagendra.r...@tejasoft.com> wrote on 12/15/2008
> 08:40:48 AM:
>
>> <DeepCopy dir="${foundation.j2me.buildutils.root}/props"
>> patterns="${deviceID}.*,*.xml,vendor.*, global.*">
>> <include name="**/${deviceID}.properties"/>
>> </DeepCopy>
>
> This is very simple: Ant is creating DeepCopy & that's it. Since Ant is
> creating DeepCopy as a result of parsing a project file (i.e. build.xml)
> it will configure DeepCopy.
>
> You're creating copy instances within the DeepCopy code, so Ant has no
> idea that you've created them. You created them so you're responsible for
> configuring them correctly. It's unreasonable to expect Ant to be
> omniscient about what you apparently expect it to be omniscient about.
>
> I understand you're upset that you lost three hours trying to figure this
> out, but your intransigent pursuit of this issue is baffling considering
> that you've already been told multiple times what the problem is and
> pointed to the documentation that explains how all of this works.
>
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