Hi gang, On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:14:56AM +0700, Stepan Mishura wrote: > Some time ago we agreed to copy resource files to classpath (i.e. bin/test > directory). I saw that you added corresponing targets to build files. But > now I realized that I don't understand why we should copy them instead of > simply adding resource directory (i.e. src/test/resources) to classpath. May > be there are simple reasons to do this that I don't know but anyway ... so > why we have to copy thousands of files (there is no doubt that in future we > will have thousands of resource files) each time we run tests?
mostly unrelated, but another reason to do the <copy/> is that you get the benefit of Ant's filters and file munging when you need it (eg to replace @@VERSION@@ in a property file with for example the current SVN revision). I suspect that's why copying resource files became common practice years ago, and why ant's mechanism for doing copies is so blazingly efficient (really. Sometimes it beats rsync). cheers! Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
