----- Original Message ----- From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ant Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 14:56 Subject: RE: Sheesh, Ant for J#? What about ant for .NET?
> > From: Frank E. Weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > The real horse at the other end of the tail is: Could Ant be used > > to build .NET > > assemblies? Here's a rad idea: could you use Ant as a replacement for (the > > build part of) Visual Studio .NET? > > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/OptionalTasks/dotnet.html > Also, look at the nant project in sourceforge, and the nunit unit testing. .NET support in ant or an equivalent tool should do the following -compile VB.NET, J# -NUNIT based testing -sign assemblies -get WSDL service descriptions from a remote site and generate proxy code -use tlbimport to import a COM object into a .NET app -do whatever you have to do to go the right way With these you can use your favourite editor, ant and the (presumably free) .NET SDK, which comes with a read only version of VS.NET for debugging, rather than the few hundred to few thousand dollars that VS.net will come. Also your build will be possible on lighter weight boxes, and deploy much, much better. The existing .net tasks could be expanded to support this, but as far as I can see, nobody is currently using them. I would if were doing .net work right now, but I'm not. Anyone else is free to work on them and submit changes, with a low use rate right now you arent going be breaking much if you change things... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
