Ahhh... Ok, that's fine.  I was worried that I was doing something wrong :-)

I'll make one last comment on the MSI issue; if someone is going to be using
a MSI to install NAnt, odds are, they aren't going to care much about it
being one separate product or two, or where/how it's installed on their
computer.  A user installing by MSI will care about selecting the features
that contain everything they are going to use and they will hope they never
have to dive into the NAnt or NAntContrib directories to fix/configure
anything.

MSI users aren't going to try to upgrade NAnt without upgrading NAntContrib
or vise-versa.  In fact most won't realize they are two products at all if
the typical install installs both.

Now developers, that's a different story and anyone downloading and
compiling NAnt is going to understand the differences between the two and
will insist that they remain separate.  Unix users, too, will want them to
be separate, but then they won't be using an MSI either.

My *opinion* is that the MSI is good as is.  It meets the targeted user's
expectations.  And it simplifies support because you don't have to ask if
they are using a different version of NAntContrib vs NAnt.  It also doesn't
make it hard to switch between the two installations if you want to.

Now, you guys know a LOT more about NAnt that I ever will.  I pull NAnt from
CVS and rebuild it regularly and I'm comfortable with that.  But I have to
deploy NAnt internally here, and the MSI is the perfect tool for that.  It's
a fantastic product (both of them) and there is just something right about
NAnt/NAntContrib being able to build its own installer :-)

I hope the final decision of the MSI will keep NAnt/NAntContrib easy to use,
no matter how and where its installed.

Thanks,

John Cole

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:27 AM
To: John Cole; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Nant-users] 0.85 msi install


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: RE: [Nant-users] 0.85 msi install


> Gert,
>   What are your reasons for not copying NAntContrib into NAnt?  It feels
> simple and safe, I was wondering why we shouldn't do that.

I just like to consider them as two separate products, and copying all
binaries in one directory makes it less obvious which assembly is used /
needed by which "product".

If we ever remove dependencies on certain assemblies for NAntContrib, these
will be left in the NAnt directory for eternety ....

Everyone's free to do as they like ofcourse ...

Gert

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