> >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.
It's nice to see that NAnt followers aren't a terribly religious group. That's refreshing. > What sort of things did you have in mind? The sorts of things one does with shell scripts or batch files. There are lots of useful things that people can do, but here's one VERY simple example... Why wouldn't you use NAnt to do backups? -Kelly E-Mail messages may contain viruses, worms, or other malicious code. By reading the message and opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full responsibility for taking protective action against such code. Sender is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message. The information in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this e-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list Nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
