Re: [nant-dev] Re: NAnt

[Gert D. <ger...@pa...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam R. B. Jack" <aj...@ap...>
To: "Gert Driesen" <ger...@pa...>
Cc: <nan...@li...>; "Gump General" 
<ge...@gu...>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 6:10 PM
Subject: [nant-dev] Re: NAnt


> On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Gert Driesen wrote:
>
>> I've copied your message to the NAnt Developer mailing list
>> (nan...@li...), which is the mailing list I'd
>> suggest you to subscribe to.
>
> I've subscribed, thanks.
>
>>>> If there's anything we (the NAnt "Team") can do to help you with NAnt,
>> or if
>>>> you run into a specific issue : don't hesiste to contact me (or anyone
>> else
>>>> of the NAnt Team)!
>
> If you could help us fill out t his page with information on how to work 
> with Nant, that'd be great. We really want to:
>
> 1) Run a script to build NAnt (kinda like the bootstrap-ant.sh script)
> 2) Use the newly built NAnt to build the rest of Nant-dom (i.e. OSS 
> project using NAnt).

There's a makefile in NAnt cvs, but this uses a minimal version of NAnt to 
build a fully functional version. Do you need a target that first creates a 
bootstrap version, and then uses that bootstrap version to build a fully 
functional version ?
>
>>>
>>> What we'd like to do is teach Python Gump how to launch NAnt (as it does
>> Ant today) with an 'environment' that Gump creates. Basically we kep 
>> calling
>> NAnt on
>>> folks projects, and the output of one project becomes the input of the
>> next.
>>>
>>> Basically we'd need to know :
>>>
>>> 1) How to call NAnt (including commandline, e.g. -debug|-verbose)

You can get the command line help by starting NAnt with a -help option.

>>> 2) How to pass an environemnt (c.f. CLASSPATH for Java folks).

You only need a correctly set-up (and supported) CLR. For Mono, you need to 
have the developer packages installed, as we use pkg-config to discover the 
location of mono .

>>> 3) How to process outputs (stdout?) and exits, etc.

Not sure what you want to accomplish here. Can you provide a little more 
information ?

>>> 4) How to process build outputs (are these .il?, c.f. jar for Java)

Build output normally consists of a set of assemblies. What further 
processing to you envision ?

Let us know if you need more information.

Gert