that's why I said that I'm open for other solutions ;-) On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Sean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I think requiring people to have ruby installed would be a fairly large > hurdle to the adoption of rake. > Sean Carpenter > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Gabriel Schenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> I just had a discussion with Fabio about the fact that the current >> build process for NHibernate is fragile and error prone. We have far >> too many situations where all of the sudden the build breaks. Some >> reasons include >> >> - the OS (Windows XP, VISTA, Server 2003 or 2008 32bit versus 64bit) >> - Visual Studio (VS 2005 versus 2008) >> - .NET framework (.NET 2.0 versus 3.5) >> - nant (do I have the right version on my system and is the >> environment path variable configured correctly) >> - tests (do I have an SQL Server and do I have created the [test] and >> [test2] databases >> - human errors: some times a committer just checks in some thing that >> only "works on his machine" >> - etc. >> >> all these factors accumulate to a situation which is far from optimal! >> It's a while ago but I have written an article about how to configure/ >> prepare the system for NHibernate. >> >> >> http://blogs.hibernatingrhinos.com/nhibernate/archive/2008/03/31/prepare-your-system-for-nhibernate.aspx >> >> There I described how to download the latest source from trunk and >> build it as well as for .NET 2.0 as for .NET 3.5. >> But today I tried to follow this step-by-step guide and I miserably >> failed... :-( (not for the first time!) >> >> I think that we can agree that we have now reached a broad adoption of >> NHibernate. The more people are using NHibernate the better the build >> has to be (did I hear "friction-less"?). And yes I am aware that most >> of the people just take the available GA (currently 2.0) but there is >> still quite a big number of people living on the trunk (myself >> included). >> >> As Fabio told me: "..nobody is willing to (really) maintain the nant >> based build..." >> >> My suggestion is now to completely re-work the build of NHibernate and >> implement it e.g. with a "better" build tool that xml-based nant or >> msbuild files. My suggestion would be "rake" (other suggestions are >> welcome). >> In a first phase we can run this new build in parallel to the current >> nant based build until every body can feel the difference >> (by the way: the guys maintaining fluent-nhibernate did already base >> their build on rake... ;-) ) >> >> Before I start implementing something I would love to hear some >> feedback about this. >> >> a) do you agree that the current situation is a pita? >> b) do you think completely re-working the build and use a different >> tool (e.g. rake) is adequate? >> c) did I forget some thing? >> d) are you willing to help? > > >
