Question of design and naming. I certainly can make XDT pluggable, using the 
MSBuild version on Windows and make it fail, if it isn't available. .

With MSBuild I can try to make it easy to integrate xbuild later on. 

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Mobil versendet. 

Am 05.01.2012 um 11:53 schrieb Brett Porter <[email protected]>:

> How much of this can be handled through the execution framework that is now 
> in place, so that a default implementation that works with Windows can be 
> built, but then someone inclined to use it could (now or later) implement an 
> alternative for Mono?
> 
> - Brett
> 
> On 05/01/2012, at 8:12 PM, Lars Corneliussen wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> we have now integrated azure and msdeploy in 1.5.0; functionality that 
>> certainly isn't and probably won't be available on other platforms than 
>> Microsoft.NET/Windows.
>> 
>> But still we have surrounding things. dotnet-application, for example, 
>> supports packaging of runnables (config + exe/dll + deps) in a zip; that is 
>> available to all platforms.
>> 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NPANDAY-493
>> Now, I want to create an XDT-plugin (XmlDocumentTransform) that enables 
>> transformation of config-files in the packaging process (usually you 
>> wouldn't like your local web.config/app.config) to be packaged unchanged. 
>> 
>> XDT is provided by MSBuild, but there is also an alternative implementation 
>> available, that maybe runs, or at least could be changed to run on mono, too 
>> (http://code.google.com/p/xdt/). How much extra effort would it be worth to 
>> choose that implementation instead of Microsofts, in order to support it on 
>> !win?
>> 
>> Alternatively we could also offer XSL-transformations only. Functional, 
>> though not as comfortable as XDT.
>> 
>> Anybody willing to help making XDT work on Mono?
>> 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NPANDAY-486
>> Then, we also think to implement MSBuild. Again, we have the option to 
>> support Xbuild as well; does anybody want to support, doing this?
>> 
>> any comments?
>> 
>> Disclaimer: I'm not (yet) using Mono at all. Not on Windows, neither on my 
>> Mac.
>> _
>> Lars
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