Not being terribly familar with Ivy, I am assuming there are times when the Ivy ant tasks set ant properties which are then referenced elsewhere in the build file. If a NAnt build calls ivy as an external process, how would such information be easily communicated? (Lots of less elegant options come to mind, but they all seem a bit awkward.) The above is based on the assumption that typical ivy ant task usage in a non-trivial build results in communication between tasks via properties. Is this assumption valid? Does such communication (if any) involve references or just value types? Value types are obviously much simplier to communicate between processes. (I'm rapidly reaching the point where I need to take a much closer look at Ivy to avoid asking stupid questions.) Some responses suggest that requiring a jvm to be deployed as part of a .NET build is no big deal. I completely agree on this. On a side note, according to its website IKVM can be used to convert java libraries to .NET assemblies. Therefore a .NET version of Ivy (or any other library) created by IKVM will not require IKVM to be deployed, although surely there are some IKVM assemblies which will need to be available. (Just as with the jvm, I don't think it would be a huge deal if it needed to be.)
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Nant version of Ivy To: dev@ant.apache.org Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 10:34 AM On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any ongoing effort to produce a .NET/NAnt version of Ivy? Are you looking for Ivy to support .NET assemblies or for a .NET implementation of Ivy's general functionality? If Ivy's features are enough to support .NET builds (strangely I'm more familiar with .NEt than with Ivy) you could certainly use Ivy from within NAnt or MSBuild. All it would take was a Java VM on the build machine (which doesn't sound worse than requiring IKVM) - I've once written NAnt and MSBuild tasks to run Ant - but must admit I've never used them: <http://stefan.samaflost.de/blog/en/dotNet/ant_for_nant_and_msbuild.html> Alternatively you could build the .NET projects from within Ant: <http://ant.apache.org/antlibs/dotnet/index.html> Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
