Anderson, Kelly wrote:
I didn't so much have a question, as an observation. I do see MANY clear
advantages of NAnt over make and shell scripts as you do. My only issue
was just with how it's being presented. It seems that NAnt would be very
good at solving a lot of problems that make would have difficulty
solving. I guess I see NAnt as more useful than JUST to replace make,
and I'm wondering why the "marketing department" isn't making more hay
out of the other things NAnt could do.
While I see many advantages (and disadvantages) in NAnt, I can't think
of anything off the top of my head that it can do, but that can't be
done with ordinary make/bash (or other scripting language). NAnt
benefits from having a centralized repository of tasks, so that we don't
each have to build our own solution task from scratch, but that's a
packaging deficiency with make/bash, not a technical one. It's also
somewhat easier to grok than make, but on the other hand there are some
things that make can do easily, but which are tricky or more work to do
in NAnt - such as adding a project-wide pre or post compile step.
What sort of things did you have in mind?
Gary
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