[Nant-users] Differential builds

[Joe Kemp]

I am developing a process to create true differential builds.  My definition of a differential build is compiling only assemblies that really need to be recompiled.  This requires looking at more than the datetime of the dependencies of an assembly.  I need to know if any public members have changed and then signal any referring assemblies that they need to recompile.  I think ant has a task <depend> that kind of accomplishes this.  Has anyone tried accomplishing this with NAnt?  It seems that this concept is contradictory to most build environments.  Reliance on datetimes and cleaning build environments seem to be assumed the norm.   Joe A. Kemp CapWIN Senior Systems Architect 6305 Ivy Lane Suite 300 Greenbelt, MD 20770 (P) 301-614-3727 (F) 301-614-0581