Dianna, I have read a lot of talk about MSBuild here before, and none of it has given me the impression that MSBuild will "bash the foundation of NAnt." In fact, I think that the two environments will complement each other very well. Both will have very similar features. And they may be able to work together. There has been talk about the legalities interoperation between the two products.
The Mono user space will still need an opensource .NET build tool. NAnt already exists to fill this need. It is for this reason above all others that I do not see NAnt going anywhere anytime soon. I expect that it will soon become an integral part of an opensource .NET IDE, and it may already be one (I am not too knowledgeable about such things). While I understand that you pessimism with MSBuild vs. NAnt stems from other Microsoft business practices, I doubt that we will see them throw their weight around in this area. Microsoft has always been very dependent on developers. Many of the first products that they developed were developer tools. Pissing off .NET developers (even opensource ones) is not a route I think that they will take. The project manager for the Visual Studio group at Microsoft has shed light on this issue in the past, and he has written many fond things about NAnt and its user community. I will not try to rehash what he has already said here. It is best to consult the archives. -Scott -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Whellams, Chris Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:56 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [Nant-users] MSBuilds bashing the foundation of Nant? MS Build was presented at the PDC and there's alot of stuff on the web if you search in Goolge for MSBuild. I've read a few blogs where MS guys are saying that Ant / NAnt is the inspiration, but that they're having to roll their own due to licence issues with the opensource projects. I get the impression that they (MS Devs)would have liked to embrace & extend NAnt, but then lawyers got involved and canned that idea. Given that the Msft R&D spend is sooo big, I can't see this product not being a success. Unfortunately it may also stunt the growth of NAnt - which is a shame as the work the NAnt devs do is superb. The good news for end users is that MSBuild is XML so a bit of XSLT magic should be enough to port a NAnt build to an MSBuild :) The good(ish) news for Ant/NAnt devs is that that they can claim the glory for getting there first. Rgds Chris Whellams ======================================================================== ====== This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain sensitive and private proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP and each legal entity in the CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON or CREDIT SUISSE ASSET MANAGEMENT business units of CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. Unless otherwise stated, any pricing information given in this message is indicative only, is subject to change and does not constitute an offer to deal at any price quoted. Any reference to the terms of executed transactions should be treated as preliminary only and subject to our formal written confirmation. ======================================================================== ====== ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
