Hello everyone,
My name is Alex Kipman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and I'm the Program Manager for MSBuild <ducks for cover>. You may or may not have read my post about this "Us versus Them" attitude portrayed in the "Longhorn" book. Just in case you haven't I'll try to post something similar here:
I saw that book and the chapter on MSBuild for the first time at PDC. The content of that chapter is inaccurate in some parts, and in particular in the final section of MSBuild vs Ant. I will be having a serious conversation with the publisher at MSPress and Brent to find out where they got their information from since no one in the MSBuild team was aware of the content of that chapter.
Again my apologies for the description of MSBuild vs Ant since that is the polar opposite of how I think we should interact. It is not about us vs Ant and we shouldn't let it become that way. As I have told the NAnt community we love you guys!! You guys are a thriving community and are enabling people to build great applications.
I have just subscribed to both ant-dev and ant-user so that I can answer questions about MSBuild if/when you guys have them. My objective is to give you facts rather than leave things up to speculation. Please let me know if my lurking upsets you and I will respect that and unsubscribe from the mailing lists.
*Stefan* I've read your blog(s) about MSBuild (http://stefanbodewig.blogger.de/). In as much as you could I think you were very objective in your comments, and for that I sincerely thank you!
Again my apologies for the MSBuild vs Ant part of the "Longhorn" book. If my team had seen it, we wouldn't have allowed it to be published.
Alex Kipman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Program Manager
Visual Studio Core Team (aka MSBuild team)
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