Negative matching 'files' for outputs

[duncanmmacleod]

Actual Behavior

There is currently no good way to exclude one or more files from being included in an output package that uses files.

Expected Behavior

Support for some sort of negative match condition that is collected and applied after the positive glob expressions are resolved. Anything analogous to the %exclude macro you can use in RPM spec files would be great.

Perhaps something as simple as a leading exclamation ! would work:

outputs:
  - name: mpyackage
    files:
      - bin/mypackage*
      - "!bin/mypackage-optional*"

  - name: mypackage-optional
    files:
      - bin/mypackage-optional

[AFAIK the exclamation is special in YAML, so it would have to be quoted always]

I'm happy to contribute to development, if other people think this is a good idea.

[mingwandroid]

Sounds good