The idea of mini-nant is to have a minimal set of working components that are able to rebuild nant itself. It DOES rebuild everything from scratch and is a recommended procedure for rebuilding NAnt.
The mini-nant is recommended because the nant build process may require some special tasks (like generating version information and embedding it in the source files) which are best controlled in the nant script itself (see create-common-assemblyinfo or documentation-related targets in NAnt.build). It's very likely that additional tasks will be added to nant bootstrap process so maintaining them in a NAnt build script looks like a good idea. BTW. I've been thinging about it for a while and the process of fully rebuilding NAnt is quite complicated: 1. Download NAnt sources from CVS 2. Bootstrap NAnt using mini-nant and binary libraries found in CVS (bin/lib directory) 3. From now on, use the bootstrapped NAnt 4. Download and rebuild the platform-neutral version of log4net.dll 5. Download and rebuild the platform-specific version of NUnit.*.dll 6. Download and rebuild the platform-specific version of NDoc.*.dll 7. Download and rebuild the ICSharpCode.SharpCvsLib.Console.dll referencing the log4net.dll built in step 4 8. Download and rebuild the ICSharpCode.SharpZip.dll 9. Put the just-built DLLs in the appropriate nant/bin/lib subdirectory 11. Bootstrap NAnt again by using the previously built nant (not the mini-nant) and the fresh libraries Jarek ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam R. B. Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Clayton Harbour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 10:16 PM Subject: Re: [nant-dev] Re: NAnt > > I was talking with Adam the other day and he suggested that a batch/ shell > script that built NAnt > from source might be a little better than relying > on the mini-NAnt.exe. I believe ant uses > > something similar to bootstrap itself so my understanding is that this > fits in better with the gump > > philosophy. > > And just for completion ... mainly, I just didn't get what bin/NAnt.exe was, > or how it worked. I didn't understand it was for bootstrap. Still, building > from scratch each time does fit Gump's philosophy. > > regards > > Adam > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
