Hi John,

Not everything built with framework 1.1 will work with framework 1.0, because a lot of thing have been added to framework 1.1, it's more like everything built with 1.0 will run with 1.1, and even then, i'm not sure if there hasn't been downward compatibility breaking changes made in framework 1.1.


And to include NAntContrib into the next release would need a lot of change to NAntContrib, due to recent changes in NAnt (the major ones i can think of are: namespaces and log system).




Nick


From: John Barstow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Gert Driesen' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Nant-Developers (E-mail)'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: 'Ian MacLean' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Upcoming 0.8.4? release (was RE: [nant-dev] FW: Upcoming 0.8.3 release)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:57:28 +1200


Lots of commentary last night. Here are my responses in no particular
order.

> I would still like to get a few things in the 0.8.3 release : upgrade
to a
> new version of #cvslib, perhaps upgrade to a yet-to-be-released
version of
> log4net (which now uses the same assembly name for all framework
versions)
> and perhaps also some fixes for NAnt on Mono ...

I'm using the release process documented on the Wiki.
(http://nant.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ReleaseProcess)
As part of the release process (step 2), I'll be pulling and testing the
most recent released versions of any products NAnt relies on.  I'll
incorporate a list of any upgrades in the release and install notes
(after running it by the mailing list first, of course).

> Mono 0.25 will probable soon be released, should we hold off on 0.8.3
until
> we've been able to test the current code on that release (on both
linux and
> windows) ?

My criteria for a release at this point is that all unit tests pass on
Windows using both frameworks; if we need Mono 0.25 to pass all unit
tests on Linux then we can do a point release when that runtime ships.
We will probably need to write more extensive unit tests, of course.

> I never had any issues with these tests, can you possible debug the
tests to
> see what's actually happening ?

My first order of business after replying to everyone.

> Is it alright to do a couple of pre-0.8.3 builds before the real one
(at
> least one)?

In theory, if all the unit tests are passing, there should be no need
for a prerelease.  I'd like to move to doing regular point releases,
especially since I can dedicate more than weekends to this.
In practice, we'll definitely do at a beta release first, followed by
the real release.  I hope we'll be able to create a CVS branch for the
release; that way we can address bugs on the branch (followed by a point
release) and continue the regular development on the main branch.
I can create the branch in my local Subversion repository if we don't
want to introduce CVS branches at this stage.

> yep we *should* - it would be nice to have that build number
> auto-increment as part of the nightly build as well.

We might want to consider using the <version> task from NAntContrib (and
maybe moving that task into the core, since all assemblies need to be
versioned somehow).

> I'll set a fixed version in src/CommonAssemblyInfo.cs in a moment (eg.
> 0.8.3.05000) . What you create the release version, you could actually
> increase the revision number a little (eg. 0.8.3.05010).

This is very reasonable.  I think if we're already on 0.8.3 in source it
makes sense to update the version number to 0.8.4 for the actual
release.  The pre-release will be 0.8.3.xxx per your suggestion if there
is agreement.

> I hope you're not gonna use the same machine to build the 0.8.3
release, as
> NAnt is still built using the .NET Framework 1.0

In theory anything built on 1.1 will run with the 1.0 runtime if you set
the appropriate config flags.  I'd actually like to test that with the
pre-release, and if it works it won't matter which runtime we build it
with.  I definitely will be doing some testing around configuration
management; the current release fails to build projects on a 1.1 box
without some tinkering.

Finally, I'd very much like to include NAntContrib as part of the next
release.  Does anyone have any ideas about how we should include it?
Personally, I have no problem just sticking it in nant\bin, but I
imagine that's not good for everyone.


John C Barstow



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