On 2/9/07, Vee Harwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We use it currently for one of our products and nant for the other. > >From my own personal experience, I would have to say that management > types I deal with hold VBP in higher regard since it has a nice and > shiny interface that nant doesn't. Functionality wise, I would rate the > two as pretty much equal in functionality, but I think nant runs faster > (no official timings to prove that). > > VBP does have a nice feature of being able to click on and off certain > build tasks in the UI for a given build project, if you do a lot of > specialized builds often it's a nice feature to have. One other thing > we use it for that I don't think nant directly supports is downing and > up'ing services before and after the build. I'm sure you could <exec> > the sc command to do the same thing. > > Just my .02, HTH >
Some other things that are handy in VBuild that I dont think (or know how to do in (N)ant) are: Set per-line-item logging source - IE, pipe the output of a specific line to the VBuild log from StdOut or from a specific file. Easy per-line-item conditional execution Set per-line-item success return code ranges (as opposed to just "0" = successful step) Synchronous/Asynchronous calls Easier to read Some things that are less handy in VBuild No built-in directives. This is a big deal. You're basically authoring a list of shell commands, so even though it looks less complicated than (N)ant, crafting a script is as much if not much more labor intensive. No targets/functions/looping. It's one long linear path. If you need to repeat an activity, it's copy/paste city. Less support by 3rd parties. AFAIK, no 3rd party tools (Cruise Control, Parabuild, etc) are designed to integrate with VBuild. Note that my observations are based on a fairly old version of VBuild (3.6), so some of the feature-centric observations may no longer be the case. IMO - VBuild is geared towards interactive builds and excels in that area, wheras (n)ant is geared towards build automation and excels in that area. -- -Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list NAnt-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
