Ant: The Definitive Guide

Name

cab

Synopsis

Creates Microsoft CAB archives. On Windows platforms, you must include the Microsoft cabarc tool on the path. On non-Windows platforms, you can use libcabinet. Information on this library can be found at http://www.freshports.org/archivers/libcabinet/. The library can be downloaded from the mirror site ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.

Attributes

basedir (all, File, Y)

The directory from which to archive files.

cabfile (all, File, Y)

The name of the CAB file to create.

compress (all, boolean, N)

If true, compress files. Defaults to true.

defaultexcludes (all, boolean, N)

Determines whether to use default excludes. Defaults to true.

excludes (all, String, N)

A comma-separated list of file patterns to exclude.

excludesfile (all, File, N)

The name of a file containing one exclude pattern per line.

includes (all, String, N)

A comma-separated list of file patterns to include.

includesfile (all, File, N)

The name of a file containing one include pattern per line.

options (all, String, N)

Specifies additional command-line arguments for the underlying cabarc command.

verbose (all, boolean, N)

If true, the task instructs the cabarc command to operate in verbose mode. Defaults to false.

Content

0..n nested patternset elements: <exclude>, <include>, <patternset> (all); <excludesfile>, <includesfile> (1.4)

Used in place of their corresponding attributes, these specify the set of included and excluded source files.

0..n nested <fileset> elements (all)

fileset elements specifying ...