RE: [Nant-users] Ant vs. NAnt

[Erv Walter]

Title: RE: [Nant-users] Ant vs. NAnt

How will you be "porting" your .NET code to Linux and Mac?  Mono?  If so, Nant works on Linux with Mono today, and I assume it would work on Mac as well as soon as Mono works on Mac (if it doesn't already).

 

The main difference between Nant and Ant is what tasks are available.  Ant inherently knows a lot about how to build Java applications and has few/no tasks for building .NET applications.  Nant inherently knows a lot about how to build .NET applications and has few/no tasks specific to Java compilation.  Nant's .NET building tasks have been built with the framework abstracted so that it can build using .NET 1.0, .NET 1.1, or Mono without changing your build file.

 

Yes, you could use Ant to build .NET applications, but you may end up developing a lot of Ant tasks yourself to do so (or you'll be using a lot of <exec> tasks).

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Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Ant vs. NAnt

At the moment we use MS Dev 6.0, but we will be converting to .Net soon. Our product line is currently windows only, but we intend to port to Linux and Mac in the near future. I don't yet know what the development environment will look like at that point.

Nant is obviously not suited to Mac and Linux builds. Given this fact, and my desire to have one set of build files to handle all platforms, it seems Ant is the way to go.

Thanks,
Ryan

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Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Ant vs. NAnt

Depends on your development environment. If you will be doing a
significant amount of java development then Ant is what you're after.
For .net development NAnt is a better choice.

Does multi-platform mean gcc or higher level languages like  java, c# or
python ?

Ian

> Hi,
> I'm trying to decide whether to use Ant or NAnt as my new build tool.
> My company is currently a Windows only shop, but we plan to go
> multi-platform(Mac\Linux\Win) in the next several months.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>