Hi all.
Since 0.84 is so stabile and nice I haven't really take my time to try out
all the new good work for the solution task, until today.
I must say it's a very impressive work. The solution task is now FAST.
A lot faster then the old was.
Howevery, I did find a wierd thing with the references, maybe a bug, I
don't know.
I have this rather large solution with a number of projects included that
compiles fine under 0.84. But under 0.85 nightly 20040320 I get:
[solution] Building 'Ifs.Fnd.Windows.Forms.Command' [Debug]...
BUILD FAILED
Couldn't find referenced assembly 'Ifs.Fnd.Windows.Forms.Interfa
ces.dll'.
after som compiling.
Looking at the csproj file in question I can see it is using a file reference:
<Reference
Name = "Ifs.Fnd.Windows.Forms.Interfaces"
AssemblyName = "Ifs.Fnd.Windows.Forms.Interfaces"
HintPath = "..\..\..\..\..\DeployFiles\Ifs.Fnd.Windows.Forms.Interfaces.dll"
/>
When I CD to the directory where the csproj file is and do a dir on that path
I get a list of that file, it is indeed compiled and deployed in that folder as it should.
Nevertheless the HintPath doesn't appear to be working here as it did in 0.84.
If I re-run the compilation without first cleaning, it will not complain about the missing
assembly. The rest of my code compiles without any problems.
Cleaning everything up I retest this using the same solution file and configuration but
this time running VS.NET 2003. It compiles everything without complaints.
It appears there is a descrepacy between VS.NET 2003 and Nant 0.85 in this respect.
The project in question really shouldn't use file references in this case since the assembly
it referes to is build into the same project. But as luck has it, it is compiled before and is
available for file reference.
/Nicke
