I've used both Ant and Nant for exactly this purpose. The only thing I can think that might cause problems is if IIS settings need to be changed while deploying a project (msi's can handle that, but I'm not sure how to do that in Nant).
Of course, you can always write custom tasks to do anything that doesn't work right out of the box. The benefit I'm pushing, with this approach, is that it will present a better "control" for the Sarbanes-Oxley auditors. They are pushing separation of development, testing and deployment tasks; but we're a small IT group and don't have the resource to separate the tasks among different people; so automating the process is the next best thing. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mauro Ciaccio Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nant-users] Using Nant on Test Servers Hi, it suddenly struck me that the use of Nant could greatly improve our current release procedures to QA. At present the developers have to copy across the required DLLs, set up the database,etc. to the test server. Given that Nant can start from the source code and SQL scripts and build the whole thing, it would seem to be a great tool to use by the test team on their Test Server. Is anybody using it this way? Are there any issues we need to be aware of? Thanks, Mauro Ciaccio ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
