The book they handed out with the PDC alpha bits, "Introducing Longhorn for
Developers", Brent Rector, Microsoft Press, has a fairly unflattering
description of NAnt in it.
>>> I have to agree with this and for that I must apologize. I saw that book and the chapter on MSBuild for the first time at PDC. The content of that chapter is inaccurate in some parts, and in particular in the final section of MSBuild vs NAnt. Upon returning to Microsoft on Monday I will be having a serious conversation with the publisher at MSPress and Brent to find out where they got their information from since no one in the MSBuild team was aware of the content of that chapter.
Again my apologies for the description of MSBuild vs NAnt since that is the polar opposite of how I think we should interact. It is not about us vs NAnt and we shouldn't let it become that way. As I have told Gert Driesen before we love the NAnt community!! You guys are a thriving .NET community and are enabling people to build .NET applications TODAY. The more successful NAnt becomes, the more successful .NET becomes. It's really a win/win situation for everyone: Microsoft, the NAnt community, and our customers.
I have just subscribed to both nant-dev and nant-user so that I can answer questions about MSBuild if/when you guys have them. My objective is to give you facts rather than leave things up to speculation. Please let me know if my lurking upsets you and I will respect that and unsubscribe from the mailing lists.
Alex Kipman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Program Manager
Visual Studio Core Team
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