> I don't know exactly what you're trying to achieve with Gump, but IMO things > are much easier than you think if you fully utilize NAnt's potential.
Yeah, I think we need to step back and make that clear. Gump is attempting to emulate a "rabid" OSS developer, perform the steps a developer would do in order to download and build NAnt, and then others -- from scratch. This OSS developer is particulary anal, they don't want yesterdays build ... they want it fresh, everything the very latest. Their objective isn't to run this, it is to monitor for changes, disconnects. If project X breaks project Y the developer wishes to feel this pain. This automated developer is there to reduce pain for human developers/users, and to catch interface change pain early! If early enough perhaps the problem can be resolved before a release is made, and a problems gets into the field. Gump is a Python program that interacts with things (CVS, SVN, Shell, Ant, Maven) and we'd like NAnt. Gump wants to bootstrap NAnt 'cos it was to also catch NAnt changes --- not just compilation, but runtime. Being an outsider is important. Gump is Python (not Java) so it is spearate from concerns of the platform, and this ought make it a good candidate for working on DotNet. We want to work with NAnt as NAnt ought be worked with, but not inside NAnt, outside -- as a developer would be. Further, we want to allow existing NAnt scripts -- as they exist today -- without change. This allows projects to benefit from Gump without changing how they work. At least, that is what we'd like. For more/historical information see: http://gump.apache.org/why.html 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