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. _ 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 > > -- > Brett Porter > [email protected] > http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ > http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter > http://twitter.com/brettporter > > > > >
