On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:14 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to define a directory as an artifact? The documentation > shows only files, e.g. zip, jar as possible artifacts but we have use > cases where much of our build input is present on the filesystem as part > of an scm tool work area, and must be copied to a build area. Is there > any way to have Ivy identify a directory as a valid input, or do we need > to find a file inside that directory that could represent the whole > input, as it were?
There's already a JIRA to accept directories as artifact (IVY-209), vote for it, and it may come close to the most requested feature! ATM the workaround often suggested is to zip the directory before publish, and unzip after resolve / retrieve. Xavier > > > thanks > > paul > __________________________________________________________ > Internal blogs: http://blogs.in.nokia.com/greenthinking, > http://blogs.in.nokia.com/helium/ > > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
