On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 8:12 AM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 7:20 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold
> <elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you are proposing. Adding a new filter to IO that
> behaves like Ant? Adding a new filter to IO that behaves like Python?
> Are Ant and Python expressions _exactly_ the same_? Even if they are
> the same today, what happens when Python decides to change?
I'm mostly interested in Maven, whose syntax is at least exactly the
same as Ant's used to be when the code was copied years ago. It's
probably still the same today.
More generally, I think Python glob is evidence that developers want
and need something like this. That is, it's useful to have file globs
with ?, *, and ** but not full regexps. It seems that would be a
generally useful thing for Commons IO.
Except now I have just discovered (via Wikipedia) that Java 7+ in fact
already has PathMatcher.getMatcher("glob") and maybe that will do all
of this? Need to explore further.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elh...@ibiblio.org
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