I am in the process of converting our existing build enviroment over to NAnt
and wanted to get the lists thoughts on some best practices.
Our build currently consists of a makefile that shells out to devenv
compiling approximately 75 solutions files, that generate over 150
assemblies. There are about 500-600 source files in total.
[1] I am currently thinking that a single build file would be the easiest to
maintain. Another thought would be to create (generate?) a build file for
every solution.
[2] My build files seem to be a mix of configuration, actions and targets
Example:
I would like to be able to type on the command line
>nant debug clean build test core.dataaccess
where
debug is the target
build does the compilation
test says run the unit tests
core.dataaccess is the "solution"
or combinations there of.
ie: nant test core.dataaccess just does the tests
To achieve this I have setup targets for each of the configurations
(debug/release) and for each of the actions (test/build/clean) and for each
solution (core.dataaccess).
Inside each "solution target" I then test if a property has been set before
performing the action
Example:
<target name="test">
<property name="action.test" value="true"/>
</target>
etc....
<target name="core.dataaccess">
<if ${action.clean}>
-->Do clean
</if>
<if ${action.build}>
-->Do build
</if>
<if ${action.test}>
-->Do test
</if>
</target>
Is this a recommended path? I think it would be generally cleaner if NAnt
had a better seperation.
thanks
brant
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