Peter Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Except that "parallel" in the sense of execOn simply says that it's > ok to provide the whole fileset to the command at once, rather than > running the command for each file.
Or "apply the command to the whole set instead of each member in some arbitrary iteration sequence". > The same thing could be achieved if there were a way to get a string > representation of a fileset We will have one in Ant2 . But you could only achieve the same as execon does if this string representation is a space delimited list of absolute pathnames - not the only reasonable choice for FileSet.toString(). > I agree though, it would be interesting to have a "true" parallel > attribute, Yes it would - but it would be quite dangerous if the tasks nested into foreach (or whatever) have not been designed to be thread save. Stefan
