[nant-dev] Thank you.

[David Reed]

Just wanted to share a big Texas thank you with all the guys 'n gals who devoted all the time and effort to make NAnt what it is for a nearly flawless upgrade event this morning.  A huge thank you, too, to whoever squared away the NAntContrib project @ SF.   At about 0300 CST this morning, I dropped the new NAnt and NAntContrib onto our build servers... just before the 4am scheduled master rebuild of everything by Draco.  And I rolled in a fresh install of NUnit 2.1.4 (to replace 2.0) and a new 1.7.1 of our SqlBooster data access layer at the same time.  (No, after all these years, I still haven't learned. :)   NAnt only freaked out once with the first build script I tested (for some reason a dynamically-generated name attribute for an <excludes /> was evaluating to an empty string in some bizarre case (which apparently was OK with v0.83 but is *not* OK with v0.84, very touchy about empty names).  It was an easy fix to the build script, though.   So, we be in production with some where north of a 160 different builds on several different build servers with v0.84.  (Although the SqlTask is *much* more chatty now.)  Draco has churned out 836 CI builds using v0.84 so far today à developers are such busy little people so close to a deadline that's fixin' to go whizzing by without so much as a howdy... and everything's very happy, especially my wife since I actually got some sleep this morning.  Very cool.   Y'all rock!   [Oh, and a Merry Nuevo Annum to all.]   /***   David Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Director of Product Development 713.490.7522 (office) ~ 832.215.3188 (cell)        Toll Free 1-866-373-2548 x122   Arnold's Laws of Documentation:   (1) If it should exist, it doesn't. (2) If it does exist, it's out of date. (3) Only documentation for useless programs     transcends the first two laws.   ***/