I think it's a good idea to promote good build system design and I think
that your document is a step in the right direction.
I like the idea of being able to treat all subprojects in a generic way. You
use gateway build files for that purpose, but I think that this kind of
functionality should be directly supported with NAnt, so you don't need to
resort to this kind of hack.
I think, one should be able to invoke <nant> like this (or with some other
syntax):
<nant target="${target}">
<buildfiles>
<includes ... />
</buildfiles>
</nant>
This can be even used with recently added "named filesets" feature. You
would define a (single) fileset that would keep all your *.build files and
invoke various targets on it using simple one-liner without the need of a
gateway file trick.
I don't remember the exact syntax for named filesets, but the concept is:
<fileset id="childrenBuildFiles">
<includes file="**/*.build" />
</fileset>
<target name="build">
<nant target="build" fileset="childrenBuildFiles" />
</target>
This would make your *.build files MUCH more readable, and simplicity and
readability is (imho) the most iportant part of a build system.
What do you think?
Jarek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Giuseppe Greco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NAnt Developers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "NAnt Users"
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Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:29 PM
Subject: [nant-dev] Building Projects With NAnt
> Hi all,
>
> Since I've decided to adopt NAnt as the standard build
> tool here at ::agamura::, I've written a document titled
> "Building Projects With NAnt"...
>
> It is available at http://developer.agamura.com/technotes
> either in PDF or HTML format -- DocBook source files will
> be available soon.
>
> May be it could be helpful for those who are new to NAnt...
> It covers NAnt basics and introduces how projects should
> be structured.
>
> Any comment, suggestion, or critic is welcome!
>
> Gius_.
>
> --
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>
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