This is pretty easy to accomplish by iterating a fileset created using
**/*.build to list all the build files in your sub-directory structure and
then execute the <nant> task on each one with the necessary parameters.
It does however sound a bit dangerous unless all your assemblies are (and
always will be) totally independent of each other, because you will have
little or no control over the order in which the build scripts are
executed. In my experience, I have always found it simpler to manually
edit the master build script to make sure all components are built in the
correct order, and use the correct references. The nested build scripts
for each component are then template based so adding a new component is
just a case of taking a copy of the template, tweaking the assembly
specific properties, and sdding a call in the correct place in the master
build script.
HTH,
Bill
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Sent: 21 February 2008 15:14
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [NAnt-users] Walking directory trees for .build files ...
I am looking for a technique using Nant to create a 'generic' directory
walking .build file.
For example: In the following scenario, I have three project directories,
each with a .build file (Project1, Project2 & Project3). I'd like to
create a .build file one level up, in this case, Projects.build, that will
iterate over each sub-directory and execute the three .build files feeding
each with the same command line target information as the top level build
file.
I would much prefer to create this top level .build script in a generic
manner so that as new projects are added, and subordinate .build files
become available, the top level .build file will 'discover' the new files
and automatically include it in the build-thus alleviating the need to
constantly have to maintain Projects.build as projects are added or
deleted.
Projects
Projects.build
Project1
Project1.build
Project2
Project2.build
Project3
Project3.build
This seems like a fairly common scenario for managing a hierarchy of
project directories. The idea is to make any one directory the current
directory, execute Nant from that point and have all .build scripts in the
next level down executed. If it works right, the Projects.build script
would be recursive and could be copied to any directory so as to
automatically 'walk' the next level down.
Before I try to figure out this myself, I wanted to see if someone else
had already solved this problem?
Thank you.
Ken Parrish
Gomez, Inc.
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