Re: Are people still using NAnt

  On 3/14/2011 4:54 PM, Bob Archer wrote:
>
> Hi Folks... we rely heavily on NAnt for our builds. But, it seems that 
> development and activity here has really slowed down. Have people 
> moved to MS Build or is NAnt just at that stage where it is stable 
> enough so people don't have problems with it and it doesn't need a lot 
> of changes?
>
I'm using NAnt for all of my builds as well. MSBuild is just too icky 
for me -- functional programming is a good match for build dependencies, 
but MSBuild carries the idea too far (take ItemGroups as an example). In 
the end, it just makes you jump through hoops and kills readability. All 
imho, of course.

I don't think NAnt itself needs any and I can't remember a single bug 
ever surfacing in the time I used it. But adding some new stuff 
definitely wouldn't hurt, preferably through NAntContrib, as others 
mentioned.

So far, I've taken care of my biggest itches by writing my own task 
library 
(https://devel.nuclex.org/sideprojects/svn/tasks/Nuclex.NAnt.Tasks/trunk), 
containing tasks for 7-Zip, Subversion and for removing nodes from XML 
documents. I'd love to contribute any of those to NAntContrib or 
whatever NAnt development goes, but it has grown pretty silent again 
recently.


> BOb
>
>
-Markus-

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