'type' attribute inversion

[Kronus David <kr...@atlas.cz>]

Hi all,
is there a way (via ant task) to request retrieving of all artifact types except some subset? I want to retrieve some specific types using a specialized pattern and all the others using a common pattern. Hence currently I have two retrieve commands and each of them specifies explicitly which artifact types to retrieve (using the 'type' attribute). However these commands are in a shared antfile and I do not have a control over all possible types that may be used by different projects which invoke this antfile. Consequently when a new artifact type is added to the repository, I need to update this common file which is not comfortable and may imply problems if some type is missing in the command.

I did some research and haven't found a way to achieve this. However, it seems extremely easy to implement such feature so I'm thinking about contributing a simple addition to Ivy. But first I'd like to make sure that I did not miss some easy way to accomplish this task.

Thanks for answers.
David