My team uses Nant and Visual Studio (perhaps you are as well?) Nant is used to house our clean production script.
I feel it has the following advantages: * It builds the product from source code all the way to installer (we call InnoSetup from it). * It allows developers to use a Visual Studio project however they like but keep a production build script. * Documentation generated from source, XML Schemas, Database SQL, etc, is created as part of the run and zipped up. * Final output from a build is automatically uploaded to an internal ftp site for testers and documentation is made available on the web for developers. * Our build server doesn't need Visual Studio installed on it. * Debug and Release compiles of the product can be provided in one script and installers created for them seperately all in one run of Nant. I view the Visual Studio projects and solutions as nice ways to arrange code when developing and debugging, but Nant is the main event as far as production quality build/test/release cycles, etc. Hope that little rant helped. I'm sure others will have useful opinions as well. Regards, Brett On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:05:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have been using Nant for quite awhile now and am extremely happy with > it. > I would not use anything else but my organization is questioning why we > should be using Nant and not just use Visual Studio to do our builds. I > am > having a hard time replying back to management in terms that will be > understood. > > My group is trying to make Nant a standard that will be adopted by my > organization for development with .Net. > > Anyway any feedback would be extremely helpful!!! > > Help, > > -Todd > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. > Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! > Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own > Applications - visit > http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 > _______________________________________________ > Nant-users mailing list > Nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list Nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
