Build ways

[Jeff White <jl...@earthlink.net>]

Have any of you "workers" (those with
live and test servers/machines) looked
at starting to use build systems for
mod_aspdotnet?

Soon Microsoft is going to MSBuild
an XML file build system for developers,
and MSBuild is out now but for .NET 2 
and so on but....

NAnt (an open source .NET XML build)

http://nant.sourceforge.net/
http://nant.sourceforge.net/nightly/latest/help/index.html

http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/help/index.html
http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/
 
NAnt is out now (for .NET 1.0/1.1/beta2 and Mono) 
and allows XML builds of C/C++ (6,7,8) and .NET 
assemblies, and MSI install and much more....

Shouldn't mod_aspdotnet start using
NAnt and be ready this time (to use
MSBuild or NAnt and perhaps since 
it's XML based both) instead of playing 
catch up later?

Using NAnt the build can search folders,
call exe, Windows Scripting, call .NET 
written input routines and look like an 
GUI build system or stay command line.....

Perhaps these newer build ways can help 
on the build of Apache.Web and it's usage 
of the other libs.... find the libs, copy/move
them and use them here and then send them 
back to where they belong....   :)

Jeff

Re: Build ways

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Feel free to offer a patch to build under nant, msbuild or any
method that proves viable!

The problem, is that the delayimp.lib is not distributed with
the .NET Visual C++ compiler - this makes it impossible to
build our c++ code outside of the full Visual Studio.

I'm actually much more concerned with changes coming in the
.NET Visual C++ 2005.  They refactored ALOT - and we will
be playing catch-up there.  The code will be measurably
easier to read, but in some ways harder to grok.

Bill

At 01:06 PM 11/22/2004, Jeff White wrote:

>Have any of you "workers" (those with
>live and test servers/machines) looked
>at starting to use build systems for
>mod_aspdotnet?
>
>Soon Microsoft is going to MSBuild
>an XML file build system for developers,
>and MSBuild is out now but for .NET 2 and so on but....
>
>NAnt (an open source .NET XML build)
>
>http://nant.sourceforge.net/
>http://nant.sourceforge.net/nightly/latest/help/index.html
>
>http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/help/index.html
>http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/
>NAnt is out now (for .NET 1.0/1.1/beta2 and Mono) and allows XML builds of C/C++ (6,7,8) and .NET assemblies, and MSI install and much more....
>
>Shouldn't mod_aspdotnet start using
>NAnt and be ready this time (to use
>MSBuild or NAnt and perhaps since it's XML based both) instead of playing catch up later?
>
>Using NAnt the build can search folders,
>call exe, Windows Scripting, call .NET written input routines and look like an GUI build system or stay command line.....
>
>Perhaps these newer build ways can help on the build of Apache.Web and it's usage of the other libs.... find the libs, copy/move
>them and use them here and then send them back to where they belong....   :)
>
>Jeff
>
>
>