On 4/20/06, Leo Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
and sometimes it doesn't ... http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200604.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) -Mark. -- Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Java Technology Centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
