Troy Your post is fantastic, to the point, wonderful, and among the best quick howto on NAntContrib that I have seen.
The sad thing is that I NEVER would have happened upon that post on my own. The only reason I have installed NantContrib where I did was because A) people said to B) I couldn't find any other instructions, and C) it seemed to work if I did it that way. The ReadMeFirst!.htm file is focused on an audience that is going to be building the tools. The readme.txt file starts out with the phase "get and build NAnt from cvs." I think a file aimed at people who are just going to download nant, and nantContrib and are never going to look at the source code would be useful. In light of that, I'd like to request that who ever is in charge of the NAntContrib distro put your post into the readme file, and that who ever is in charge of the NAnt Wiki put your post there in the NAntContrib getting started section. Thank you. Malcolm --- Troy Laurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got some concerns about the NAntContrib being unzipped > > right into the NAnt directory, it overwrites some of the help > > files, and I've been too busy (lazy?) to notice what else. > > I'd like to reiterate my concern with this as the recommended > installation method for nant-contrib... As a (essentially) third party > library of tasks, it should be installed in the same way as any other > third party library of tasks... which (IMHO) is to place the dll(s) > somewhere on the filesystem outside the NAnt installation, then load the > tasks prior to their use with <loadtasks>. The file location can be > redirected through an environment variable if people want a single place > of change if the location of the third party assembly changes. > > > My original post on this is at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03398.ht > ml > (or http://tinyurl.com/6gmem) > > > Regards, > > -- Troy ===== "Oh Bother!" said the Borg, "We just assimilated Pooh." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
