Kelly Anderson wrote: > All of the "marketing" for NAnt seems to indicate that it is a > replacement for make. > ... > Sure, you CAN write a make system with a shell script, but the beauty of > make was that the dependency checking was implicit and built in. It > seems with NAnt that you have to add the dependency checking explicitly.
Hi Kelly. Back in the "bad old days" before NAnt and Ant, I made extensive use of make files for building software across a number of platforms (Solaris, OS/2, DOS). In every case, the make tool involved had some "native" understanding of simple dependencies (e.g. that .c files can be made into .o files by cc), but the explicit (high level) dependencies needed to be explicitly stated. I don't see that NAnt is different in any way that matters ... Some tasks have built in knowledge of dependencies, so they avoid doing extra work, some don't. Cheers, Bevan. ****************************************************************************** "This message (and any files transmitted with it) are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete this message from your system. This message does not necessarily reflect the views of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. If the recipient has any concerns about the content of this message they should seek alternative confirmation from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand." ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Nant-users mailing list Nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
