Re: [Nant-users] Question about style task in latest nightly build

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
Hi Nick, The basedir attribute in indeed no longer supported, you should specify the path to the the source/stylesheet/output file in the attributes themselves. All non rooted paths are indeed considered to be relative to the project (build file). Gert - Original Message - From: "Zigoman

Re: [Nant-users] Query about function file::up-to-date in latest nightly build

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
No, will definitely not be deprecated. Gert - Original Message - From: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gert Driesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Zigomanis, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Query about func

[Nant-users] Question about style task in latest nightly build

2004-03-17 Thread Zigomanis, Nick
Hi all, In 0.84, the style task had a basedir attribute which specified where to find a XML file. It seems that in 0.85, support for basedir no longer exists. All my style tasks (a few) no longer work. It seems that the source xml file is being searched for in the directory where my build file

Re: [Nant-users] Query about function file::up-to-date in latest nightly build

2004-03-17 Thread Ian MacLean
In that case should probablynot be deprecated . Ian Gert Driesen wrote: Nick, I don't have much time right now, so I'll be brief (sorry about that) : - file::up-to-do is for checking a single file - task is for checking multiple files Hope this helps, Gert - Original Message - From:

Re: FW: [Nant-users] Target Templates

2004-03-17 Thread Giuseppe Greco
> How would this work with dependencies? For example, I have a build > target for a project that depends on a source control target for the > same project: > > > ... > > > > ... > Wild targets work just like any other targets, except that they are invoked if and only if the target name you pr

Re: [Nant-users] Query about function file::up-to-date in latest nightly build

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
Nick, I don't have much time right now, so I'll be brief (sorry about that) : - file::up-to-do is for checking a single file - task is for checking multiple files Hope this helps, Gert - Original Message - From: "Zigomanis, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thur

Re: [Nant-users] nant 0.85

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
Hi Matt, We've removed support for filtersets from NAnt, although the filterset and filter elements are still in cvs. I will probable move these NAntContrib, and add a task to NAntContrib which uses filtersets. Gert - Original Message - From: "Baldree Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[E

RE: [Nant-users] Target Templates

2004-03-17 Thread Giuseppe Greco
Edwin, the latest nightly build supports wild targets and the example I sent you yesterday does work. j3d. > No, I just downloaded the latest nightly build and I get a "target does > not exist in this project" error. > > -- > Edwin G. Castro > Firing Systems Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --

[Nant-users] Query about function file::up-to-date in latest nightly build

2004-03-17 Thread Zigomanis, Nick
Hi all, I've got the latest night build of nant and nant-contrib (thanks to all who helped). I've made some changes to my build files and included some of the functionality of 0.85 that I was after. So far, everything is working well. I have a bit of a query about, although it is not really a p

[Nant-users] Re: requesting help with a build error

2004-03-17 Thread curtiszarger
(I am unable to mail from my company server for some reason. id=curtiszarger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please post.) THX Gert for the previous reply, it helped a lot. I’m much closer, but still having a problem and a few questions remain. Below is the current form of my build file, with Gert’s su

[Nant-users] nant 0.85

2004-03-17 Thread Baldree Matt
Does copy with filters/tokens work? I'm trying to use it and I can't seem to get it to work. I don't see any examples or test cases for it. Shouldn't this work? -matt --- This SF.Net email is sponsor

[Nant-users] if uptodatefile... documentation a bit confusing

2004-03-17 Thread Hearn, Bruce
Hi,The nant 0.84 manual describes the if statement, with examples like this:       This example is a bit confusing.  Might I suggest improving the example, by doing something like this:          Thanks,   Bruce      

RE: [Nant-users] Target Templates

2004-03-17 Thread Castro, Edwin Gabriel (Firing Systems Engr.)
No, I just downloaded the latest nightly build and I get a "target does not exist in this project" error. -- Edwin G. Castro Firing Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 1:12 PM To: Castro, Edw

RE: [Nant-users] Target Templates

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:32, Castro, Edwin Gabriel (Firing Systems Engr.) wrote: > NAnt does not appear to allow wildcards in target names so this > suggestion doesn't quite work... Any other suggestions? > It does in the latest nightly builds (http://nant.sourceforge.net/nightly/builds). Gert

RE: [Nant-users] Target Templates

2004-03-17 Thread Castro, Edwin Gabriel (Firing Systems Engr.)
NAnt does not appear to allow wildcards in target names so this suggestion doesn't quite work... Any other suggestions? -- Edwin G. Castro Firing Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Castro, Edwin Gabriel (F

FW: [Nant-users] Target Templates

2004-03-17 Thread Castro, Edwin Gabriel (Firing Systems Engr.)
How would this work with dependencies? For example, I have a build target for a project that depends on a source control target for the same project: ... ... -- Edwin G. Castro Firing Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Giuseppe Greco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [Nant-users] Nant contrib and Nant nightly build

2004-03-17 Thread Castro, Edwin Gabriel (Firing Systems Engr.)
One thing I've noticed is that NAnt can build its own sources ok, but if I always have problems building it with VS.NET. From what I can tell, there is no need to recompile NAnt, unless you change something... -- Edwin G. Castro Firing Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message---

[Nant-users] Thanks and meta-question (was Where are command line options documented?)

2004-03-17 Thread Gary Feldman
First, thanks to those who responded to my question on the command line options. Second, here's a meta-query: Is there any way that the mailing list tool can be changed so that the digest format would be more useful? The plain text format contains both the text and html versions (including style

RE: [Nant-users] Nant contrib and Nant nightly build

2004-03-17 Thread Tom Peryam
It sounds like you are building from the sources? I used the prebuilt versions of both nant and nant contrib. Also, could be you are using some features of Contrib that I am not using. Specifically, I use the VSS tasks, the ADSI tasks, and the IIS tasks all of which are compatible. There could be o

Re: [Nant-users] Target Templates

2004-03-17 Thread Giuseppe Greco
> What I'm wondering is if there is a way to generalize these two targets > into one target and some how specify which project properties to use? > Something similar to the following: > ... Try this: then invoke nant like this: nant clean.project1 or nant clean.project2 I hope t

[Nant-users] Target Templates

2004-03-17 Thread Castro, Edwin Gabriel (Firing Systems Engr.)
I am writing a number of targets that could be created into templates and I’m not sure whether this is possible or not. What I have is a collection of identical targets where specific property names vary in predictable ways. Bellow is one example of such a case.      

Re: [Nant-users] CVS update

2004-03-17 Thread Ian MacLean
Gert Driesen wrote: I actually have to agree with Clayton in some way ... Verbose is not always bad, I would prefer this : over this any day ... Why ? The ability to have conditions I can see but y

Re: [Nant-users] How do you mail the build log on failure?

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
Vincent, You accomplish this by setting the message level of your own echo tasks to "Warning" eg. and run the build in quiet mode eg. NAnt.exe -buildfile: -quiet which will only output messages with level Warning or Error. Gert - Original Message - From: "Vincent Erickson" <[EMAIL

RE: [Nant-users] How do you mail the build log on failure?

2004-03-17 Thread Kevin Dickover
This is my automated build file (with some name alterations); it should point you in the right direction. In our case, when the build succeeds we get a short email pointing to simple logs, when it fails we get a huge email of a verbose log of the build. The build runs 4 times a day, the huge(up t

Re: [Nant-users] CVS update

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
I actually have to agree with Clayton in some way ... Verbose is not always bad, I would prefer this : > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > over this any day

RE: [Nant-users] CVS update

2004-03-17 Thread Clayton Harbour
:-). Okay, that is 4 for option 2 then...and 1 for option 3 :-). So just to summarize I will: 1) remove the global and command option sets 2) add common attributes to the specific task targets 3) add an extraoptions attribute and move commonly used options from here as nee

Re: [Nant-users] How do you mail the build log on failure?

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
use the NAnt.Core.MailLogger : NAnt.exe -buildfile: -logger:NAnt.Core.MailLogger you need to configure the MailLogger using a predefined set of properties in your buildfile (see the NAnt SDK docs for more information) : Hope this helps, Gert - O

Usesharpcvslib = false; was RE: [Nant-users] CVS update

2004-03-17 Thread Clayton Harbour
Hi Kevin, The cvs task in the nightly builds does this if you specify: As a property (defaults to "true") or the task also supports overriding this with an attribute: If you need to change the behavior for a specific task. This should be available with the next NAnt release. C

RE: [Nant-users] CVS update

2004-03-17 Thread Nicklas Norling
I vote for the most simple form. Number 2 seems like it for me. But I want the "normal" parameters to be turned on by default. But my vote may not count, as I have not yet done my homework :) /Nicke > -Original Message- > From: Clayton Harbour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 17 mars

RE: [Nant-users] CVS update

2004-03-17 Thread Kevin Dickover
I have to say that assuming that the major CVS options are included; solution 2 looks easier to me also. But what I really want is for the CVS tasks to support SSPI. :-) Kevin Dickover -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clayton Harbour Se

[Nant-users] How do you mail the build log on failure?

2004-03-17 Thread Darrel Herbst
I would like to set up a nightly build/test file which will email out the build log if the build fails, but I keep getting this message below, which looks to me as though the build log file is locked, so nant cannot read in the file while it is writing it at the same time. How do other people mail

RE: [Nant-users] CVS update

2004-03-17 Thread Clayton Harbour
Hi, Honestly I wouldn't really see a problem with using the same syntax for the task and that is one of the reasons this thread started :-). In any case that makes 2 for option 2 and if I stop sitting on the fence, 2 for option 3. We need a tie breaker. Clayton > -Original Message-

[Nant-users] tags --> The path is too long after being fully qualified

2004-03-17 Thread Jo De Greef
Hi, I am using NAnt with this (very simple) build script: = http://localhost/JobVacancy.Web/JobVacancy.Web.csproj"; path="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\JobVacancy.Web\J

Re: [Nant-users] CVS update

2004-03-17 Thread Ian MacLean
I'd have to say 2 also. Forcing users to use the nested and for even the simplest actions seems way too verbose. Imagine if you had to do to compile using csc ? Ian Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote: My vote is 2 (but make sure that "extraoptions" is needed in <5% cas

Re: [Nant-users] requesting help with a build error

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
You can't have a fileset nested in the references element (I understand that the task docs are somewhat misleading sometimes), and you probably shouldn't use the frompath="true" on the element in and (unless you want to locate sources or resources on the PATH). You should try something like thi

Re: [Nant-users] Building Crystal Reports using Nant

2004-03-17 Thread Gert Driesen
Nitin, Can you reproduce this issue using the latest nightly build (http://nant.sourceforge.net/nightly/builds) ? If you can, please submit a detailed bug report and attach a zip file containing the minimum set of files necessary to reproduce this issue (including any non-system assemblies needed