Re: Ant - determine file size
Gordon Beaton wrote:
It confounds me that there seems to be no way in ant, to retrieve
the size of a file as an integer figure of bytes.
I don't think it's a something often needed by a typical build.
I was beginning to suspect that. Daniel's pointer to
the introduction of it in 1.6.3 supports that even more,
in that it seems rather later to be introducing something
which is imperative for a good build tool.
Did I miss something? Either that provides that functionality, or in
the way ant works/is supposed to work (e.g. write a custom task).
I've never done this myself, but implementing a new task doesn't look
all that intimidating:
I had implemented a custom task for the saverbeans project.
As you suspect - it is not that tricky. But another thing I
forgot to menion was that I wanted these build files (in the
best situation) to be available to anyone running Ant (1.n.n+),
and introducing custom tasks complicates that.
I think I'll go with Daniel's suggestion and 1.6.3+.
Thanks for the input.
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Andrew Thompson
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