All,
I'm checking Nant out and am considering employing it for my application. First, a little bit about my app...
The main app is a WinForms app. There are 2 web services and a portal app as well. All in all, there are 7 solutions containing somewhere around 20 projects or so. The deployment consists of the following tasks:
1)shut down IIS and uninstall and reinstall asp.net
2)get all files from VSS into a staging directory
3)label all projects in VSS
4)compile all projects and send an email
a) in compile, if it's a web app or svc, copy all dlls and necessary files to virt dir
b) if forms app, copy dll's into the reference dir for other projects to ref
5)clean up
Now, obviously, this is an over-simplification of the whole process but you get the jist.
My question is this: I have heard that maintenance of build files can be an unwieldy task. Is this true? How do you handle it? Given the information I have set forth above, does it sound like I can gain significant benefit from Nant?
Thanks,
Evan A. Bonnett
Reynolds and Reynolds, IT
ERA Integrated Desking Development
937-485-8577
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