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From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: 17 Oct 2001 09:21:56 +0200
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Holger Engels <hengels@mercatis.de> wrote:

> A path definition, that contains a fileset might depend on the time,
> it is evaluated:

Right, but starting with Ant 1.4 this is not that big a problem
anymore as you can now define data types inside of <target>s.  You
simply wouldn't define the path of your example before you knew that
${build}/lib contained all the jars you need.

> -> evaluate the path definition on demand - probably more than once
> -> a build

I think this is part of our Ant2 vision.

Stefan