heh - a lot of that resistance was from me as I recall. I apologize. I wasn't really thinking that enabling project specific tasks was wrong - more that the model of taskdef was wrong for nant. I think we have come up with a soloution that will satisfy all of us.That's cool. However, allow me to present an "alternative" point of view: Why can't we have *both*? The argument I've been hearing since taskdef was shunned (and I'm one of the ones that complained about this at the time) is that the config stuff is more flexible and more elegant. So what? Why does that preclude us from supporting both ways of doing it? That's what baffle's me (or actually, the resistance I've gotten from trying to present this before).
Now, don't get me wrong, I like the idea of the config stuff. However, this is one case that doesn't fit completely into the config idea. Why? I don't know about other people, but at least where we use NAnt, we sometimes have project-specific tasks. Now, why the hell should I be required to *modify* my NAnt instalalation (which I may be using for many other projects) just so I can load those tasks? That, to me, is unacceptable.
Totally - its a very valid use-case. I think that there will be lots of settings in the config file that will need to be editable from a build file. You should be able to set most options system wide or locally in a specific build.
I can live with that. Let's us then do something that fits in NAnt's model but that caters to those escenarios that the config stuff doesn't. And make *that* part of the NAnt core.
agreed
That sounds good to me. Perhaps a better taskname would be "loadtasks",good idea. <loadtasks> it is
Ian
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