The Phing Thing

Try this in phing:

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<project name=”tartest” default=”tartest” basedir=”.”>
<target name=”tartest”>
<mkdir dir=”tartest”/>
<touch file=”tartest/test.txt”/>
<touch file=”tartest/test.__txt”/>
<touch file=”tartest/test__.txt”/>
<touch file=”tartest/test_._txt”/>
<tar destfile=”tartest.tar” basedir=”tartest” />
</target>
</project>


I would have expected it to actually DO pack the whole directory.

This works:


<tar destfile=”tartest.tar”>
<fileset dir=”tartest” defaultexcludes=”false”>
<include name=”**/**” />
</fileset>
</tar>

It’s the same for zip archives.

One would need an oracle…

To touch up on some oracle related topics I decided to give oracle-xe (free as in beer) a spin. Turns out there is a repository for debian unstable for that. Nice!

The whole thing can be read at and obtained from oracle.

It’s not quite that straightforward to get the php5 connection up, but it’s manageable.

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