From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-08-28T05:08:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake FileList Includes Request


T. Onoma said:
> I would like to make a request for a Rake feature. When using FileList
> directives, such as the rdoc task's #include (I assume it is a FileList),
> it
> would be nice if it didn't throw an error for files it could not find, a
> warning should, I think, suffice.

FileList itself generally doesn't care if the file names in its list exist
or not.  It must be the software that is using the file list that is
complaining.  For example, if you pass a list of files to RDoc, and one of
the files doesn't exist, then it is RDoc that would complain, not
FileList.

If you wish, you can filter out non-existant files before they go to other
software with:

   a_file_list.delete_if { |fn| ! File.exist?(fn) }

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