Hi all, I have been away from development for the last 4 months or so, and may be a little longer still. I hope to have a few weeks, or months, of time back to catch up with stuff before I take off again. I feel really out of things will all the great improvements and changes that have happened recently.
John, I completely agree that deployment is an area that most people don't get to till the end. This usually leaves it in a less then usable state, and sometimes hacked from a lack of planning and poor tools. These tasks you are talking about sound great, esp from a daily/hourly build and test point of view, let alone live deployment. Please see my comments and questions inline below. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NAnt developers (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:26 PM Subject: [nant-dev] NAnt and Serviced Components > Hi Folks, > > I just want to get an update on who's working on what in NAnt. I took a > quick peek at the sources for NAnt/NAntContrib and it looks like there's > a bit of room left for improvement. But I just wanted to ping the list > to make sure that there aren't folks already working on these things and > to check to see if I missed something in my quick peek at the sources. > > One of the major problems in a build is the deployment phase. Here are a > few deployment-related tasks that I'm itching to build to solve some of > these problems: > > 1) A server happiness task that lets you snoop around on the server to > see what's there. Looking for what exactly? More information is good, but what would it do? > 2) An Enterprise Services task that generates the appropriate COM+ > catalog goo. > 3) An extension to the AssemblyInfo task to generate all of the > appropriate Enterprise Services goo. > 4) Some combination of tasks to handle the delay-signing problem (I > still have to think this one through). > 5) A deployment task that auto-generates passwords for new accounts, and > makes them available to other NAnt tasks for the duration of NAnt "run" > - the idea here is to let you create new accounts and set the RunAs > attribute in a COM+ application - but I'm sure the utility could be > extended to other things that require generated passwords. This is a cool idea. It would also be cool to be able to do stuff to remote machines in a lot of these tasks. > 6) A SQL task that lets you whack / set ACL's on SQL server objects. > 7) A modification of the existing SQL task that lets you run osql using > integrated authentication and the specified username / password > combination.> > Can folks suggest additional tasks required for deployment of ASP.NET > applications based on their own experiences? I'll add them to my list. I would also suggest a tool for managing/starting/stopping webs (not the whole w3svc service but just individual webs and applications). This would have to affect COM+ catalogs. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
