I'd like to use "symlink" as part of a deploy task on unix machines. I
have a set of files which are most easily specified as a fileset, and
I'd like to create symbolic links in a particular destination
directory to all of the sources. I could just copy them, as
<target name="install_copy" >
<copy todir="${deploy.dir}" flatten="true">
<fileset refid="sourceFiles"/>
</copy>
</target>
but I'd really rather create links with something like
<target name="install_link" >
<symlink todir="${deploy.dir}" >
<fileset refid="sourceFiles"/>
</copy>
</target>
But of course the symlink task isn't set up to do this sort of thing.
Instead, it would force me to enumerate each filename and call
<symlink action="single" ... which would be pretty painful.
Or I could rewrite the symlink task so that I could take a filemapper
or some such thing as an argument, i.e. make it more like "copy". I
would think this generally desirable -- and that I would not have been
the first to think of it.
And as far as I know, there is no reasonable iterator or foreach way
to wrap up a single symlink task within the fileset.
Any suggestions?
-Nate
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