Ant's limited support for symlinks

Apache Ant has the bad behavior of deleting all the files in a symlink directory. Although somebody has created a patch for this behaviour, it doesn't seem as if it will ever get into an official release. I suspect the reason for this is that the Delete task should not care about fileset internals.

On the other hand it would be great if the Symlink task would have the ability to use filesets or even recorded symlinks in a delete call.

Once I have time, I'll do something about this...