Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> >> OK, here is my take, using <anton> which doesn't exist right now >> but has been promised for Ant2 (and could very well be there in >> Ant1 as well). > > We have Apply which executes an external executable on multiple > files. Proposed AntOn executes Ant on multiple build files.
And there'll be japply or javaon or whatever as well, yes. > Why not generalize this have some feature that executes an arbitrary > task on multiple files? This can be written in Ant2 quite easily (as Roger already pointed out). I doubt that the concept is general enough though, what would mkdir do with a set of existing files, what would echo do ... Stefan
