Re: Some questions about using Filecontainer for Archives

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>
> Rene Groeschke wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> I've just added a new zip Task to my project. This task should  
>> create a zip with all third-party libs in the lib folder of that  
>> zip. actually my task looks like the following:
>>
>> task createBinZip(type: Zip) {
>>    classifier = 'bin'
>>        files(configurations.groovy)
>>            fileSet(dir: 'build'){
>>           include "**/*.jar"
>>       }
>>
>>        fileSet(dir: 'build/classes'){
>>        include "**/*.sh"
>>    }
>> }
>>
>> In the snippet above I add all files in the configuration groovy to  
>> my zip. but how can I put all these third party libs to a special  
>> folder in that zip for example called "libs".
>
> You can't easily do this yet. You need to copy them somewhere and  
> then use a zipfileset to include them in the 'libs' folder of the  
> archive.
>
> We plan to make this better in 0.7, so you could do something like:

> task createBinZip(type: Zip) {
>   libs {
>       from(configurations.groovy)
>       from('build') {
>           include '**/*.jar'
>       }
>   }
>   from(someDir) {
>       ...
>   }
> }

>
>> And can anybody explain, what's the difference between:
>>
>> files(configurations.groovy) and just
>> configurations.groovy ?
>>
>
> 'files(configurations.groovy)' adds the 'groovy' configuration as a  
> file collection to be included in the archive, and  
> 'configurations.groovy' is simply a property reference to the  
> 'groovy' configuration, which does nothing with it. The second  
> statement won't actually include the configuration in the archive.
>
> We could probably do some DSL magic so that you can include a file  
> collection simply by referencing it in the archive's configure  
> closure, so that the 2 statements above do the same thing. I'm not  
> sure it's worth it - it could be just as effective, I think, to  
> simply choose a better name for the files() method.
>
>> In Section 15.12. of the gradle docs I've found the following  
>> sentence: "For example, the Configuration objects of a project  
>> implement FileCollection . You can also obtain a FileCollection  
>> using the  method Project.files()"
>>
>> So instead of writing "files(configurations.groovy)" shouldn't it  
>> be enough to write "configurations.groovy" in my zip task? What is  
>> the meaning of "FileCollection Project.files(FileCollection  fc)" ?
>>
>
> This would return a FileCollection which contains the same files as  
> the supplied collection.