Gary Feldman wrote:
> Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:
>
>> Gary Feldman wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ...
>>> This would remove one of the major advantages that NAnt has over VS2003,
>>> namely it can build the
>>> solution much more rapidly than VS.
>>>
>>>
>> Can you elaborate on "rapidly" ? I don't see any particular speed
>> advantage here.
>>
>>
> It's actually been a while since I've looked at VS2003 timing, so I
> don't have precise numbers anymore, but the difference was quite
> perceptible. Using the NAnt <exec> task to run devenv would take
> several minutes, while using the NAnt <solution> task would be under a
> minute.
>
I'm not talking about spawning devenv, but moving the functionality of
the <solution> task to a separate exe that would be runnable from NAnt
and essentially turning <solution> into a wrapper around the exe.
I really don't see any significant advantage of creating a build file:
<project>
<solution solutionfile="a.sln" />
</project>
then "nanting" this instead of running a single exe file with parameters:
BuildSolution.exe a.sln
Separating the solution building algorithms outside of NAnt core (and
perhaps making it a separate OSS project) would help NAnt focus on its
core features. In a year or two there will be less and less projects
which will continue to use VS2002/2003. Having such a complicated piece
of code (and I'm sure <solution> is one) in NAnt's core can negatively
impact NAnt's future maintainability.
My 0.02
Jarek
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