thanks for posting.Ian, thanks for your active participation and sympathize with your frustration over the "unspecific complaints" of trouble building NAntContrib. I was one of those who had done this. However, I was able to successfully build it last night and here are my notes and observations about the process.
If you have installed tortoise you can run this command from a regular windows command shell. Its actually better to use that one as the cygwin version of cvs.exe sometimes gets line endings confused.$ cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/nantcontrib login <press return for password> $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/nantcontrib co NAntContrib
Next the ReadMe file: --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to build.
1.) Get NAnt 0.8.1 and put it in a NAntRelease directory. 1.5) Run NAntRelease\bin\nant.exe -f:NAntContrib.build use 2.) Run NAntRelease\bin\nant.exe -f:NAntContrib.build ---------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm thinking of changing this to: 1) get and build NAnt from cvs 2) run NAntContrib.build referencing the version of NAnt just built.
nant -D:nant.dir=c:\cvs\nant\build\nant-0.8.4-debug -f:NAntContrib.build
nant.dir should point to the build directory just above bin.
copying to a NAntRelease folder will still work however this way is more explicit and you don't have to copy the built nant. I've made a couple of small changes to make contrib compile against cvs head rather than 0.8.3. I vote for continuing to keep the two cvs trees in sync. I don't forsee any of the big core changes we have had in the past on the road to 1.0
A question for those who actually build their own NAntcontrib. Is there anot right now. There is support for placing task assemblies in other directories. Edit the taskpath attribute in NAnt.exe.config
convienent or necessary trick to setting up the PATH order to get it to use
the current NAnt assemblies (0.8.3) which include NAntContrib and use my
NAntContrib instead? In other words, won't NAnt prefer the ones in it's own
directory over the ones in "my" NAntContrib directory? I'm certain I can
copy and delete files until it works (dink), but it something that will have
to be done over and over again each time I download a new version (re-dink).
<nant taskpath=".\optional">
<frameworks default="net-1.0">
this should be a ; seperated pathlist. you'll still need to remove the contrib dlls from the nant bin dir ( NAnt.Contrib.Tasks.dll and NAnt.Xsd.Tasks.dll ) otherwise they will be loaded first.
Ian
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