It seems that you don´t know the Ant-Contrib library and the <foreach> task?
Jan Ant-Contrib: Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ant-contrib/ CVS-Source: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ant-contrib/ant-contrib/src/n et/sf/antcontrib/ CVS-Manual: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ant-contrib/ant-contrib/manua l/index.html http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/ant-contrib/ant-co ntrib/manual/tasks/index.html Binary: http://gump.covalent.net/jars/latest/ant-contrib/ > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Albert Pastrana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Freitag, 13. Juni 2003 13:19 > An: Ant Developers List > Betreff: new ant task proposal > > Hi to all, > > First of all, apologizes for my english (I'm catalan) and for > my message, if > it is not posted to the proper list. > > I've been using ant for a long, and I've always thought that > it lacks a > useful functionality, this is the possibility to make a loop > over a group of > dirs (or files). > > I needed this because in several build.xml files I would like > to perform the > same build tasks for a group of modules. I supose I'm not the > only one that > uses .sh or .bat files to perform similar things. > > Last week was the last, I decided to make a little task to loop over a > directory contents and perform a task for every one of the directories > inside it. This task is very simple, it extends the > CallTarget task and > takes only two new arguments: > - dir: the name of the directory you want to loop over > - propertyName: the name of the property you want to put the > value of every > subdir name (by default is current.dir) > > Then the task is really easy to use, it's something like that: > <target name="echodirname"> > <echo>${current.dir}</echo> > </target> > <target name="doloop"> > <taskdef classname="LoopTask" name="loop"/> > <loop dir="./" target="echodirname"/> > </target> > > It's very useful for me, and I would like this task to be > added to Ant core > tasks, because I think it could interest to a lot of people. > If not, it > would be nice also to add it to external tasks. The problem > is that I cannot > spend time on it and I can't compromise on solving bugs > and/or extending it. > > For example, it would be nice to extend the task and take the list of > dirs/files to loop over from a fileset, but my very > rudimentary knowledge of > ant made impossible to me to extend the task and add compatibility for > fileset :(( > > Well, that's all, I hope you to understand my english ;) and > some of you to > suggest me a solution. > > cheers > > albert > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
