Jaroslaw,
First of all, thank you for your feedback! I've really appreciated it.
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:55, Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:
> 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 would be nice... but it is not implemented yet.
The main advantage of gateway build files, is that you can add
new subprojects without having to modify any build file.
> 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>
>
Yes, the syntax is correct. I'll introduce an example ASAP -- fileset
references are available since last Tuesday...
> 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?
I think we could discuss all together how to continue the development
of this document; as soon as I'll publish the DocBook source files,
anybody will be able to enhance it...
Gius_.
>
> Jarek
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> From: "Giuseppe Greco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:29 PM
> Subject: [nant-dev] Building Projects With NAnt
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>
> > 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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