oh, and just because it might need re-repeating, 
i too am very grateful to this community.  it's a great tool, i'm
heavily invested in it, and want to continue to help grow it.

/jean


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Foley, Cash
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 12:03
> To: 'Nant-Developers (E-mail)'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Nant-users] nant / nant-contrib issues
> 
> 
> 
> Not wanting to turn this into a NAnt RAnt :)
> 
> But I have never been able to download NAntContrib and just 
> build it! Somehow I find it a little bit ironic that a tool 
> to manage builds should be so difficult to build.  I have the 
> feeling that once they get their environment set up, the 
> people putting together the download don't follow the 
> instructions and do it from scratch to see how well it works. 
>  And yes... I really need it to work with 1.1 and sometimes 1.0.
> 
> But even with all that said... I'm very grateful for the 
> efforts that have produced NAnt and NAntContrib for basically free! 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cash
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean Rajotte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 10:38 AM
> To: 'Nant-Developers (E-mail)'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Nant-users] nant / nant-contrib issues
> 
> 
> hi yall,
> 
> IMHO....
> 
> since nant's namespace was restructured , the usability and 
> extensibility via nant-contrib has suffered enormously, it 
> seems to me. it's very hard to get a good binary image 
> working across .NET 1.0 and 1.1.  And it's hard to get a 
> matching source image including nant-contrib and nant -- 
> they're both important.
> 
> it seems the current structure is as follows, which i believe is
> problematic:
> 
> nant source produces daily nant bin, which is available w/ 
> some arbitrary nant-contrib bin. nant-contrib source is 
> available on its own. building it depends on some arbitrary nant bin.
> 
> i may not have gotten the above exactly, but it seems to me 
> nonetheless that the package visibility is backwards.  what 
> would make sense to me would be the following:
> 
> nant-contrib depends on nant.  nothing else.
> how to do this?
> 
> when someone changes nant, they should somehow make sure they 
> didn't break nant-contrib. when someone gets nant 
> (source/bin), they only get nant (because they're not 
> dependent on nant-contrib) when someone gets nant-contrib 
> (source/bin), they get both the latest nant-contrib and the 
> latest nant (source/bin) because they work together.
> 
> ?
> 
> /jean
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