Re: [Firebird-docs] Comment out empty images dir in build.xml?

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi Tilo,

> [ about the empty folder src\docs\firebirddocs\images: ]

> Let's comment it out then, and uncomment it as soon as something is
> placed in that folder. And when it is no longer empty, it will also
> no longer be pruned by "update -P", so that part of the problem will
> solve itself.

Meanwhile I've thought of something that may be better:

- create a file Readme.txt in the images dir;
- change the lines in the *html targets in build.xml that now read:
    <fileset dir="${src.dir}/docs/firebirddocs/images"/>
  to:
    <fileset dir="${src.dir}/docs/firebirddocs/images"
                                          excludes="Readme.txt"/>

The first step will prevent the local dir to be deleted by update -P.
The second step will prevent Readme.txt to be copied to the dist tree.

The advantage is that we won't have to change build.xml back and
forth; this solution will work whether image is "empty" (but for
Readme.txt) or not.

Readme.txt must contain a few lines to explain why it is there and
why it shouldn't be deleted. I call it Readme.txt instead of e.g.
Dummy.txt because this makes it more likely that someone will read
the contents before he decides to delete it.

What do you think?


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog