Daniel Barclay <Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com> 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
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