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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Martin Aliger
> Sent: vrijdag 14 juli 2006 12:59
> To: 'Gary Feldman'; nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [nant-dev] Release 0.85 and beyond
> 
> Hello,
> 
> agreed - 1.0 soon is a good thing. I see only one big thing 
> which we should
> addess in 1.0: VS2005 projects. Or MSBuild cooperation. The 
> same thing.
> 
> Since many developers are migrating (or already using) 
> framework 2.0 in
> VS2005 and we (currently) do not provide direct tools for 
> projects it uses,
> they could either: use plain msbuild (deserters!) or use core
> tasks-csc,regasm etc (and maintain both .csproj and .build) 
> or (as most of
> them do today) <exec> msbuild.exe to their .csproj file (and 
> give up project
> dependancy resolution and other <solution> features)

Are people really waiting for this ?

Shouldn't we focus on improving NAnt ?

> As I see it, we could:
> 1/ state, that new project files used on VS2005 are unsupported
> 2/ write new task which handles it somehow (aka <msbuild-solution> or
> <new-vs2005-solution>)
> 3/ merge required code into current <solution> task

We already have an <msbuild> task in NAntContrib.

> Since msbuild code need to run under 2.0 framework, and NAnt 
> itself should
> run on 1.0/1.1 as well, integration (if 3 will be chosen) 
> have to be done
> carefully. Or could we restrict NAnt to 2.0 framework? I 
> don't thing so...

We could ofcourse use reflection to invoke the MSBuild API's. 

We briefly discussed this once, no ?

> Maybe 2 distributions: 1.0 compatible, and 2.0, compiled for 
> 2.0 and with
> additional features?

This might create too much confusion for (some) users, no ?

Gert



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