While I see many advantages (and disadvantages) in NAnt, I can't thinkof 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).NAntbenefits from having a centralized repository of tasks, so that we don'teach have to build our
To: Gary Feldman
Cc: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:57
AM
Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Build target
from command line without dependencies
While
I see many advantages (and disadvantages) in NAnt, I can't thinkof
anything off
Kelly Anderson wrote:
Why wouldn't you use NAnt to do backups?
For what it's worth ... And depending on what kind of backup you mean
... I do.
If you mean keeping a copy of the results of a build ...
... In all my software build scripts, I have a release target that
does the whole build and
If you mean keeping a copy of the results of a build ...
If you mean keeping a copy of the source that went into a build ...
If you mean mirroring a file tree to a second location ...
Yeah, that's a good example of what I'm talking about...
I bet we could come up with a pile of examples of
Anderson, Kelly wrote:
If you mean keeping a copy of the results of a build ...
If you mean keeping a copy of the source that went into a build ...
If you mean mirroring a file tree to a second location ...
Yeah, that's a good example of what I'm talking about...
Well, yes, NAnt can
your question.
Regards,
Richard
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From: Anderson, Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 16:47
To: Foster, Richard - PAL
Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without
dependencies
This is NOT a NAnt bash. I am NOT complaining
I didn't so much have a question, as an observation. I do see MANY clear
advantages of NAnt over make and shell scripts as you do. My only issue
was just with how it's being presented. It seems that NAnt would be very
good at solving a lot of problems that make would have difficulty
solving. I
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Kelly
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:49 PM
To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without
dependencies
This is NOT a NAnt bash. I am NOT complaining. I am trying to gain
insight into NAnt.
All
To: Anderson, Kelly
Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line
without dependencies
Hello again Kelly,
You wrote:
Having your build scripts be cross platform may be important to Java
people, but it is less so to most of us C++ folks.
Agreed... But C# (especially with the cross
Thank you for a pleasant discussion of NAnt. I'm quite excited to be
using it and learning about it. I hope that someday soon, I'll be able
to answer questions here rather than just asking. I've really enjoyed
the separation of concerns thread too. Nice thinking!
-Kelly
Nothing wrong with
something that it isn't really... comments?
-Kelly
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From: Foster, Richard - PAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:21 AM
To: Anderson, Kelly
Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without
dependencies
Kelly,
Depending on your
Bill Arnette wrote:
bill
I asked a similar question a while ago and never got a response. Basically
my question was what is the Nant equivalent of a C++ makefile?
/bill
There is no answer to that, because there's no such thing as a canonical
C++ makefile. Perhaps you have in mind the
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Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without
dependencies
Bill Arnette wrote:
bill
I asked a similar question a while ago and never got a response.
Basically my question was what is the Nant equivalent of a C++
makefile?
/bill
On 9/15/05, Bill Arnette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With my suggestion, 'nant -only:projectC' would only do the body of the
projectC target and not execute the dependencies without cluttering the
build file with dependency-only targets, or with if statements and unless
attributes that
Kelly Anderson wrote:
All of the marketing for NAnt seems to indicate that it is a
replacement for make.
...
Sure, you CAN write a make system with a shell script, but the beauty
of
make was that the dependency checking was implicit and built in. It
seems with NAnt that you have to add the
Bill Arnette wrote:
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edmund Schweppe
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:54 PM
Arnette, Bill wrote:
When writing a build file that does everything from checking out the
source to creating the installation package, it would be nice if you
could run
On 14/09/05, Arnette, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When writing a build file that does everything from checking out the
source to creating the installation package, it would be nice if you
could run a target from the command line without running the
dependencies. Is this possible now?
my
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