peter reilly wrote: > I would include filters, mappers, conditions and selectors to > the list.
I would exclude them :-) Taks, types, mappers, filters, whatever are just ant components - and they shouldn't need a special syntax from user perspective. We shouldn't treat them ( or types, tasks ) as special - just plain components that happen to perform different functions in the build file. > A relatively simple mod to the core ant makes this > possible (bugzilla 17199) basically get ConditionBase.java, > AbstractFileSet, FilterChain implement DynamicConfigurator. > and get UnknownElement (bugzilla 18312) call setProject > earlier on created children. > Mappers are a little different, I implemented a new > attribute to handle this. That's a possible solution, I'll take a look ( in few weeks unfortunately..., hopefully this will be resolved by than by others :-).