[nant-dev] debug=true/full and DEBUG

[Erv Walter]

I am wondering about another issue that I initially thought might be helped by the change below, but it turned out not quite.  I think this has been asked before (a long time ago), but I figured I'd ask again.   Currently (in cvs), the csc task sets the DEBUG symbol if debug is true, Full, or PdbOnly.  That is fairly limiting in the first two cases and I think conceptually "wrong" in the last case.  By setting DEBUG, many conditionally compiled functions are included in the compiled assembly.  In the PdbOnly case, that is probably not what is desired.  Someone using PdbOnly probably wants a "release" style build but with a pdb file.  They will instead get all their DEBUG stuff included (Debug.Writeline, Debug.Assert, etc).   Our situation is slightly different.  We would like to turn on the debug build (to include debugging symbols), but *not* define DEBUG.  In VS.NET project files, I believe it's possible to control debug symbols separately from compilation symbols such as DEBUG.  We've wished for a while that this was possible in the <csc> task.  Any thoughts on perhaps another entry in the DebugOutput enum that would allow this sort of situation?  Or some other workaround?   Thanks!!     From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 3/5/2005 8:43 AM To: Walker, Brian; nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [nant-dev] Patch for 1156702  [snip]   I've just added support for the different debug types to cvs.  Before this change, our compiler tasks only supported either full debug output or no debug output at all.    [snip]