[Bluej-discuss] Excluding directories in the submitter?

[Cecilia Vargas]

Stephen,

You are right that in the submission.defs file you cannot specify 
directory patterns, only file patterns, and I agree with you that 
directory patterns ought to be allowed. I have entered a request for 
enhancement (ticket #110) in Bluej's Trac, so the change you requested 
is now in our to-do list. You can view our progress on it in Trac.

Cecilia

Stephen Edwards wrote:
> I was fiddling with some submitter definitions today, trying to
> find a way to exclude javadoc from student submissions (after
> all, that is just derived info that is already contained in the
> Java source files).  However, I wasn't able to do it cleanly.
>
>  From playing around, the behavior of the submitter seems to
> be:
>
> +   .file.exclude patterns cannot be directories, only file names.
>
> +   .file.exclude patterns cannot contain directory/folder names
>      at all, even if they identify specific files.
>
> +   There is no way to exclude a directory, except by excluding
>      all the files it contains with simple file name patterns that
>      do not contain any directory information.
>
> Are these true?  If so, would it be hard to modify the submitter
> to support directory patterns instead of just plain file patterns?
>
> As an example, ANT's file patterns are fairly rich and allow one
> to express directory structure restrictions and/or file naming
> restrictions in a fairly comprehensive way, without being too
> difficult to learn (with only /, *, and ? as the special chars).
>
> -- Steve
>
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