Re: [nant-dev] MSBuild

[Eric F. <els...@ya...>]

Yeah, I'm with you, just doing a bit of venting about MS's "come inside, ma=
ke all nice, and steal steal steal" behavior.  Typical of them...=0A=0A----=
- Original Message ----=0AFrom: Bevan Arps <Bev...@rb...>=0ATo: =
Eric Fetzer <els...@ya...>; NAnt Developers <nant-developers@lists.=
sourceforge.net>=0ASent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:27:57 PM=0ASubject: =
RE: [nant-dev] MSBuild=0A=0A=0AHi Eric.=0A=0A> I don't see much use for NAn=
t except for legacy stuff.=0A=0AFor what it's worth, I see a place for both=
 tools.=0A=0AIn a significant project I'm working on at the moment, we use =
MSBuild to=0Ado the actual builds ... But we control it by invoking it from=
 within=0ANAnt.=0A=0AOur NAnt scripts take care of a much wider range of ac=
tivities that=0AMSBuild doesn't seem to handle nearly as well.=0A=0ASome ex=
amples:=0A  -  Database maintenance (dropping existing databases, creating =
fresh=0Aones)=0A  -  Testing (Nunit and FIT based)=0A  -  Creating static (=
standing) data (through FIT)=0A  -  Build Archiving (copying to a known arc=
hive directory)=0A=0AHope this helps,=0ABevan.=0A=0A=0A-----Original Messag=
e-----=0AFrom: nan...@li...=0A[mailto:nant=
-de...@li...] On Behalf Of Eric=0AFetzer=0ASen=
t: Thursday, 26 October 2006 4:34 a.m.=0ATo: NAnt Developers=0ASubject: [na=
nt-dev] MSBuild=0A=0ADoes it bug anyone else that MSBuild is almost identic=
al to NAnt with=0Aslight modifications like $( instead of ${ to access prop=
erties...  I=0Aremember the manager of MSBuild coming in and acting like MS=
 was going=0Ato play so nice with NAnt, when in reality, he was using it as=
 a project=0Ato copy because obviously the community liked it.  And he's do=
ne his=0Abest job at locking NAnt out of being a useful tool with VS2005...=
  In=0Afact, once completely converted to 2005,   Am I way off base?=0A=0A=
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