Re: differential pattern sets

Stefan Bodewig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.ant.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2016-11-19, Alan Snyder wrote:

> I would like to define a file set containing files selected by one pattern set but excluding those defined by a second pattern set.

> Is there a way to do this?

Kind of. You can get a resource colection by using <difference> on two
<fileset>s each one with one of the pattern sets.

The alternative is to replace the <patternset>s with selectors, likely
<filename>, and use some <or>s and <not>s. This will yield a <fileset>.

Stefan
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