> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Oster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: woensdag 29 juni 2005 21:20
> To: Gert Driesen
> Subject: Re: [nant-dev] Rational behind not supporting basedir?
>
> On 6/29/05, Gert Driesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > I'm curious what the rational is behind not supporting
> the standard
> > > basedir attribute of the <project> element? I have quite a few
> > > maintenance scripts that I use to not only build source
> but also do
> > > sysadmin type functions on my machine and all of them use
> basedir in
> > > some way. In exploring NAnt every single one of them fails with a
> > > basedir property not defined error.
> >
> > We do support the "basedir" attribute of the <project>
> element. We just
> > don't support the basedir property.
>
> Ahh pity. From an academic, developer to developer point of view I'm
> curious why that decision was made. I'm just wondering because
> obviously that's a big decision since many existing Ant scripts use
> ${basedir} as a property and it must have been a conscious decision to
> break the interface. Obviously a lot of thought must go into each
> decision that breaks simple compatibility with the original Ant since
> by the nature of calling it "NAnt" it implies a certain compatibility.
> At some point I'm sure someone said, "Ok, Ant does it this way but I
> don't think NAnt should because (fill in blank)" It's that fill in
> the blank part I'm after.
I definitely agree that compatibility with Ant would've been nice.
However, I wasn't involved in NAnt when some of these decision were made.
> > You should either use the project::get-base-directory() or the
> > nant.project.basedir property
> >
>
> Thanks for the advice but I think I'll stick with Ant. Too many
> scripts use ${basedir} and I don't want to convert all of those that
> do to use the NAnt proprietary "project::get-base-directory()" or
> "nant.project.basedir". We share these admin-style scripts and I
> don't want to force others to use nant just to work around this issue.
I understand. I appreciate your feedback anyway.
Gert
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