Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> I think one of our worst decitions was to use "parallel" for the
> name of that attribute.

Mea culpa.

>> From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> 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 think this is the wrong approach because it puts too much
> dependency on surface syntax which can be OS dependant or what have
> you.

I still think that execon is worth a task of its own, even if there
was a foreach task in core.

Stefan

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