Sure. I'll give it a shot next week.

Thanks for your help,

Christopher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Boisvert" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:43:20 PM
Subject: Re: Can I package symlinks in a WAR file without writing my own 
package task?

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Christopher Tiwald
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Slightly unusual question... I'm working with a large web application
> I'd like to deploy as a WAR. I've got it all working, it compiles and
> packages just fine, but a portion of it must contain symlinks, not the
> files themselves, but as symlinks (equivalent to a unix/mac `zip -y`).
> Is anyone
> aware of a straightforward way to make this possible, or is it
> possible at
> all?
>

I guess it would be possible to make buildr's archive task optionally
support symlinks... Rubyzip seems to support it. Want to submit a patch?

alex

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