Title: RE: [ANN] Collecting requirements for Ant2

From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

> oh no - I oppose both select and foreach as every example I
> have seen so
> far are examples of things that should be done in preprocessing ;)

Assuming that the <select> construct is able to operate on a fileset,
then if you use a preprocessor, you can't select on files that are
a results of an earlier ant step.

I think that is a serious limitation.

Imagine for example that you have a process which generates a number
of jar files in a directory.
Someone might want to call some other task for each jar that is there
(eg to upload them to a webpage).

I'm not sure how you would do that if you required that <select> be
implemented by a preprocessor.

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