Re: Next NAnt/NAntContrib TODO Tasks

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Ryan Boggs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Stefan Bodewig
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2011-10-26, Ryan Boggs wrote:
>>
>>> Now that 0.91 final is out the door, I would like to start discussing
>>> what items to work on in both NAnt/NAntContrib. =A0Attached is an html
>>> file of an outline I put together with thoughts about next steps I
>>> have had for months (I put it in an attachment just in case your email
>>> viewers don't handle html emails).
>>
>> Jumping in at some random point and as somebody who has a strong Ant
>> background but doesn't really know NAnt as good as I should.
>>
>> I can't say much about your choice of SCM. =A0Why do you feel
>> Sourceforge's git offering was insufficient - this is an honest question
>> as I may be thinking about moving XMLUnit to a different SCM myself
>> (currently using svn at Sourceforge).
> It just doesn't feel like there is alot of effort on the repo side in
> terms of code reviews and other tools that sites like github have.
> That being said, I've been toying with the idea about using of setting
> up a git repo on SF to use as a mirror of source. =A0I am also thinking
> about keeping the CVS repo at SF live but readonly for historic
> reasons.
>
> One thing I noticed from experience I have with github.com is that it
> is much easier to share/review code from others than it currently is
> on SF.

I'm giving a +1 to choosing git and github, in a large part because
those two are popular and well known. And github's pull management is
an awesome feature.

>>
>> We'll be polling log4net's users about platform support soon. =A0I also
>> feel you are safe to require 2.0 at runtime as long as you keep 1.x as
>> targets.
> I hope so.

Agree here as well. Although this might (in future) mean quite a large
rewrite of the NAnt API to make use of the generics.

>>
>> When I worked on the log4net release I cursed NAnt's lack of a <mapper>
>> so a big +1 for this. =A0I also miss <macrodef>. =A0Badly.
> I should add <macrodef> too, eh?
>>
>> Have you seen the 1.2.11 release of log4net of about two weeks ago? ;-)
> I have not. =A0I'll have to check that out.
>
> If activity has restarted for log4net like you say, I should take that
> item off my list I just sent out. =A0It was something I have had in mind
> for months prior when log4net activity seemed non-existent.
>
> It took me awhile to get NAnt to use log4net 1.2.10 because of
> sharpcvslib's dependency on log4net 1.2.9. =A0Since I was recently
> granted commit access to that project, I could see if I could upgrade
> the dependency in both projects.

Updating <nunit2> task will be tricky, especially if you want to keep
it working on Mono as well. Any NAnt deployment that I'm aware of has
resorted to using <exec> instead, because of compatibility problems
between nunit dlls NAnt bundled and those that the project itself
used.

>From the low priority list:
I'm quite fond of the NAnt website layout :-) And migrating to another
license requires written permission from every past contributor - this
would be a hard task to perform. Also, it might not provide any gain
to end users - development tools don't usually need a permissive
license, as they are not linked into the end product.

Regards,

Leszek 'skolima' Ciesielski

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