embarrassing code

[cellio]

I just wrote an ant target to call a bat file to loop over all files of a given type and call a different bat file. (This last bat file doesn't understand wildcards, and it's commercial software so I'm loathe to hack at it.)

I feel dirty.

(I couldn't figure out how to write the loop within the body of the ant target, which would clearly be better.)

Comments

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

You can't loop naturally in ant. When Elias was wanting to do that sort of thing in writing the buildfiles, he had to write a java plugin to ant to do it for him.

I don't think ant has any list functions either, so you can't loop by recursion.