On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 19:26, John Luke wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 19:14 +0100, Giuseppe Greco wrote: > > > I do not agree! > > > > Just download the following sample application and > > try to build it with the latest version of nant: > > > > http://developer.agamura.com/resources/thermota-0.6.src.tar.gz > > > > We develop our software on Linux, and we use NAnt to build > > it. Of course, at the beginning there were some small problems, > > but now I can assure you that NAnt is quite mature. > > > > I guess we will have to agree to disagree here: > 1. Nant has greatly improved recently, and I have used it myself on > linux for a long time. > 2. Your sample is only managed code.
Yes, that's true... even if you can invoke the C compiler with the <exec> task. I'm honest... we used to compile C code with make/automake, but we tried, for example, to build our LaTeX docs with NAnt instead of make, and it works fine. By the way, I understand you viewpoint. > 3. does nant support building C? Just ask it to the NAnt community: Ian, Gert, Jarek, is there any plan to build C support in NAnt? > 4. There is no one build system that is best for everything > 5. It is not really about nant being immature, more about not solving > all the same problems as the auto* tools yet > 6. I just tried it and it failed, which means I have to re-download nant > and update it, see if it works, maybe edit the framework settings, then > retry, so you see it is not as simple as you think -- ---------------------------------------- Giuseppe Greco ::agamura:: phone: +41 91 604 67 65 mobile: +41 76 390 60 32 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.agamura.com ---------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers