Why don't you delete the jar file in the build before the jar? i.e. <target name="jar" > <delete file="myjarfile.jar"/> <jar jarfile="myjarfile.jar" basedir="${build.dir}"/> </target>
-----Original Message----- From: Lisa Knee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:35 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: updating jar files with each build Actually, it doesn't rewrite anything, unless I delete the jar file each time - painfully, manually. Thus my inquiry as to a better way, which doesn't seem to exist ... so thanks anyways! lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:18 PM Subject: RE: updating jar files with each build > As I recall, update=true means that the files in the jar/zip file are > updated rather than the whole file being rewritten. > > So you probably don't want to used update=true > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lisa Knee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, 17 October 2002 11:54 a.m. > > To: Ant Users List > > Subject: updating jar files with each build > > > > I'm new to Ant and loving it but have one simple question: if a jar > file > > is > > being created and you want it to overwrite the old one with each new > > compile, how do you set up your build.xml file for that? I tried > > update="true" in the <jar> tag, but to no avail. > > > > thanks! > > > > lisa > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>