Yeah, I'm with you, just doing a bit of venting about MS's "come inside, make all nice, and steal steal steal" behavior. Typical of them...
----- Original Message ---- From: Bevan Arps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Fetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; NAnt Developers <nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:27:57 PM Subject: RE: [nant-dev] MSBuild Hi Eric. > I don't see much use for NAnt except for legacy stuff. For what it's worth, I see a place for both tools. In a significant project I'm working on at the moment, we use MSBuild to do the actual builds ... But we control it by invoking it from within NAnt. Our NAnt scripts take care of a much wider range of activities that MSBuild doesn't seem to handle nearly as well. Some examples: - Database maintenance (dropping existing databases, creating fresh ones) - Testing (Nunit and FIT based) - Creating static (standing) data (through FIT) - Build Archiving (copying to a known archive directory) Hope this helps, Bevan. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fetzer Sent: Thursday, 26 October 2006 4:34 a.m. To: NAnt Developers Subject: [nant-dev] MSBuild Does it bug anyone else that MSBuild is almost identical to NAnt with slight modifications like $( instead of ${ to access properties... I remember the manager of MSBuild coming in and acting like MS was going to play so nice with NAnt, when in reality, he was using it as a project to copy because obviously the community liked it. And he's done his best job at locking NAnt out of being a useful tool with VS2005... In fact, once completely converted to 2005, Am I way off base? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers ****************************************************************************** "This message (and any files transmitted with it) are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this message from your system. This message does not necessarily reflect the views of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. If the recipient has any concerns about the content of this message they should seek alternative confirmation from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand." ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ nant-developers mailing list nant-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
