RE: [nant-dev] Spawning processes vs. using managed apis

[Shaw, G. <gr...@ea...>]

I'd say it's a disadvantage to use external programs if there is a way
to use the framework directly.  Calling external programs reduces the
portability of the nant tasks when people start using this on Linux with
Mono.  If possible use the framework.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Weakliem [mailto:gwe...@od...]=20
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 12:52 PM
To: nan...@li...
Subject: [nant-dev] Spawning processes vs. using managed apis


I've been rolling some of my own tasks for NAnt lately, and looking
through the source, I notice that most tasks spawn off a separate
process even when there's a managed API that implements the same
functionality (the tlbimp/tlbexp tasks in NAntContrib, for example).  Is
there a reason for this?  It's definitely more expedient to spawn off an
existing utility program, but I'm wondering if there's a particular
advantage to doing this, or a disadvantage to using managed APIs.


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