[Nant-users] General Usage Strategies

[Nau, M. <Mic...@py...>]

Hello,

Can anyone provide some insight as to the best way to support both a
VS.NET IDE and an nAnt build environment?=20

Our developers need to use VS.NET to develop and test their components
and I need some way to build and test the components in an automated
environment. When setting up the nAnt build file, you need to know all
component references. So you end up having to maintain both the VS.NET
projects as well as the nAnt build files. When one changes, you have to
make an identical change in the other.=20

I'm concerned about the 2 getting out of synch over time. With java, the
major IDE's integrated with ant. So you could use the IDE to develop,
but you always build with ant. This way you only had to maintain one
definition of the build environment.=20

I've seen a couple attempts to parse the VS.NET solution and project
files to extract the reference info. I've haven't had any success using
these. I'm concerned these techniques are based on how the VS.NET
solution and project files are structured - but there's no guarantee the
structure of these files won't change over time, rendering older build
incompatible.

Thoughts?

Mike.