Re: [Nant-users] NDoc version in distribution

[Ian MacLean]

Gert,

I'm not saying we should actually always use the latest version, but when
possible (and after enough testing) yes.

Agreed.

In my opinion, we should really try to use only binary releases of other
projects and work with those other teams to get bugs fixed (or functional
changes introduced).  We should consider NDoc as just another tool, it's not
because the source is available that we should go ahead and create our own
version.

Actually this is what we are doing. You'll notice that there is no ndoc source inside the NAnt tree.

What we have done is create a custom documenter for creating the NAnt docs. This is just for 'our' build process not for users of NAnt. I think Scotts previous post about "custom changes to the msdn documenter" are based on misunderstanding this. It shouldn't take too much work to fix the custom documenter to work with the current version.

It should actually be possible not to include Ndoc  assemblies in the NAnt
distribution at all and just tell users to get version xx.xx of NDoc and
copy assembly x and y to directory z.  I'm not saying we
should do it like that, but we should actually make this possible.

Yes and it will be. Probably is now - you just have to use ndoc v1.0 binaries.

For users, it should always be clear which version of NDoc, NUnit,
SharpZipLib and so NAnt uses (or requires / supports).

Somthing more for the docs/faq. We need to be careful that we update included binaries when each project has a stable version of we think about supporting multiple versions so people don't upgrade NAnt and suddenly find all their unit tests don't work. SharpZipLib probably isn't a big concern - as long as it produces valid zip archives users probably won't care what version we're using :)

hmm maybe we could have somthing like nant -help tasks which would output specific version info for each task. As well as having it the help for each task.


Ian



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