Re: NUnit 2 support (was: RE: [nant-dev] FAQ: The next NAnt version)

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Tomas:
(re: NantContrib:)
>I'm not sure if it's worh it to keep them separated
>anymore.

>Any thoughts?

While I understood the reasons behind the separation, I have felt for a
while that they should be recombined, if not for technical reasons (like
versioning) then for end-user clarity:
1) having to understand to distros and how they relate increases the
learning (and thus the adoption curve) for new users.
2) managing two tools that work so closely together is going to cause some
to shy away due to the increased maintenance.
3) Knowing whether a given task is in NantContrib, or the Core distro is
one extra item to document and research
4) The NantContrib project isn't going anywhere.

The last one might yet resolve itself, but its possible that it is a matter
of marketing -- OSS projects get traffic based on many factors, however
many people hear of Nant, only some percentage are going to hear about
NAntContrib. My guess is that it will get less traffic until it is mature
-- but it might never mature without that traffic.

Finally, managing one OSS project is difficult enough, managing two is much
harder, managing two that interact is going to be harder still -- and if
the maintainers are going to be the same on both projects (an obvious way
to reduce the interaction complexity) then why have two in the first place?

Just my 0.02

Best,
Bill

William E. Caputo
ThoughtWorks, Inc.