This is a very interesting and involved issue.
I personally have not been following the Mono mailing list like I should,
(and certainly not NAnt), but I know that NAnt in its current incarnation is
wonderful for what we need.
I like MSBuild, but it can be a bit clunkier at times. But I do know, that
technically it can do everything we are doing with NAnt.
As far as the recursive file includes, I originally dropped those in so I
wouldn't miss something that xfury dropped in, (him being currently the
equivalent of notepad-bound, even if it does have syntax highlighting.) But
if xfury is amenable, maybe we could convince him to use MonoDevelop, if it
is indeed capable of handling the MSBuild format. And then we can toss out
the recursive includes.
I have not worked with YAML, or CAML, or anything close. (Even the F#
samples I've seen online, both confuse, and scare the living crap out of
me.) So the potential "Yabble" example posted, literally, doesn't mean
anything to me... sorry...
I do know, however, that any solution (no pun intended), that involves
closing and re-opening SharpOS in *any* IDE, on potententially a large
percentage of working copy updates, is not a solution. And any "solution"
that involves the IDE's build process to stub out to NAnt or another build
tool, which breaks IntelliSense, is *definitely* not acceptable.
So for right now, I would suggest we keep doing what we've been doing, and
let MonoDevelop work out its own bugs. (And as a project, we'll "upgrade" to
the VS 2008 MSBuild format after the IDE has seeped into mainstream usage -
and still keep NAnt on the side.) I mean, I wouldn't object to MSBuild-only,
but we have to make sure everyone can play, first. And for now, using NAnt
relieves us of that problem.
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