I have a problem with a project organizaition have here that makes me sorrows trying to move into Nant.
Situation:
* We have a library in one of our projects that does use a third party control.
* This third party control uses disc based files to configure itself. It is basically a syntax highlighting editor and takes the highlight info from files.
Here is the issue. So far we were using a post-build event in VS.NET to copy these files from the project solution (where we have them as solution items) to - the build directory of the main program.
Practical Example:
Solution has:
Client.Exe project, being the executable.
CodeEditor.dll project, being our code editor, using a third party control and having a number of language XML files that it needs in it's directory.
Upon build, our post-build-event is copying the stuff over to Solution/Client.Exe/bin/debug from where our install builder is also grabbing it.
Sucks as a setup. But how to make it better?
Anyone an idea? The main problem is that I want to keep away from integrating these fiöles, which belong to a library, from being "specially traeted" in the client.exe project. OTOH, VS.NET is unable to copy them to the client,exe output automatically. As we talk of a third party control, we also can not really put the stuff somewhere else.
How are you people treating issues like these?
Thomas
