thanks everybody for the answers.

Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> 
> My major problems with ant-contrib today would be that it never had a
> proper release (1.0b3 is more than two years old) and seems to be more
> or less unmaintained.
> 

there is a beta 5 from alst april...
but still it'll be hard to convince my boss to use a beta 


Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> 
> Another thing is that the tasks already exist and it would be pretty
> silly to duplicate the effort inside Ant.
> 
to me this would seem to be a rather odd argumentation...


Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> 
> Yes, the Ant way is to write a custom task, or more generally the Ant
> way is to move the iteration into a task rather than have it external.
> 
this is probably the way to go...
and on a second thought i think it is a clean and fast solution that should
be implementable in a days work...

i'll be back if i run in problems doing this ;-)

thanks
patrick
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