Exclude rule that begins with /** takes very long

[DavidPerezIngeniero]

If I write this, it takes too long:

fileset:
  includes: $dirWebapp/**
  excludes: /**/*.py
  targetDir: $INSTALL_PATH/webIma

I have to write this redundant style instead:

fileset:
  includes: $dirWebapp/**
  excludes: $dirWebapp/**/*.py
  targetDir: $INSTALL_PATH/webIma

What is worst, in the 2nd case, no exclude rule is generated in the generated izpack.xml. It is also quite verbose, listing all the subdirectories.

[DavidPerezIngeniero]

My 2nd try:

fileset:
  includes: $dirWebapp/**
  regexExcludes: .*\.py
  targetDir: $INSTALL_PATH/webIma

I don't see any exclusion either in the generated izpack.xml. :-(

I think it would have been better, to stick closely to the IzPack spec, as it is more powerful, and easier to implement.

[bmc]

Perhaps I should reimplement it to generate the regular IzPack wildcards. Instead, sbt-izpack expands the wildcards itself.

However, I won't be getting to that any time soon, I'm afraid.

In the meantime, please realize what $dirWebapp/** is doing. It's recursing down the entire tree, picking up every single file. That can take time; it's a pretty broad wildcard. A quicker fix might be if I were to allow you to specify a top-level directory ($dirWebapp), with the understanding that doing so means "the entire directory tree". I suspect that would be faster.

[DavidPerezIngeniero]

Don't worry, this has motivated me to fork for the 1st time in github. When working, I'll make a pull request.

[DavidPerezIngeniero]

Here is my first forked project in github. I'd like to make a pull request.