[Nant-users] Wildcards with filters?

2004-08-04 Thread Nick Zigomanis
Hi all,   I’m using a filterchain on the copy task. I want to do a replacestring.   Is it possible to use wildcards within the from attribute of the replacestring?   For example, I’m creating a build manifest and  want to do something like:     I’d like the * to match anything be

RE: [Nant-users] Passing a fileset as argument to external program

2004-08-04 Thread Troy Laurin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Rodrigo B. de Oliveira > Sent: Thursday, 5 August 2004 2:03 AM > To: nant-users > Subject: [Nant-users] Passing a fileset as argument to > external program > > Hi, I'm migrating an ant based bui

Re: [Nant-users] Passing a fileset as argument to external program

2004-08-04 Thread Ian MacLean
Rodrigo B. de Oliveira wrote: Hi, I'm migrating an ant based build file to nant. One of the things I need to migrate is the invocation of the java vm passing a classpath as an argument, ant allows one to do it like this:

RE: [Nant-users] How to use dynamic properties

2004-08-04 Thread Troy Laurin
> It would be neat if the value of a dynamic property were > completely re-evaluated each time the property were > referenced because that would name a property reference into > a simple argument-less function call. If that can be done, > you ought to brag about it in the documentation. The v

RE: [Nant-users] Auto incrementing build numbers

2004-08-04 Thread Troy Laurin
NAnt-contrib has a task which does what you are after: http://nantcontrib.sourceforge.net/help/tasks/version.html > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tim Mavers > Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2004 10:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Su

RE: [Nant-users] running external program from NAnt

2004-08-04 Thread Troy Laurin
> Hi, > >I would like to run an external program from NAnt. > I want to run the Unit Tests in NAnt while that external > program is running. How can I do that? Right now I'm trying > like this The nant task currently doesn't support starting a process and then continuing in parallel (I

RE: [Nant-users] Triggering Distributed Tests

2004-08-04 Thread Eric Deslauriers
Ed, My recommendation is build in one place, deploy to the other machines, and then test on the other machines. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml Your NAnt file gets a: There's your kickoff. ${command} can be another NAnt script, NUnit, any command line. Then you can cop

[Nant-users] RE: [Ccnet-user] Triggering Distributed Tests

2004-08-04 Thread Castro, Edwin Gabriel (Firing Systems Engr.)
I had a similar idea. Under a setup like you configure I would have a CCNet project for each machine (build, test1, test2, ...) and each machine would have its own log files. Would there be a way to combine the results? I would like to keep the reporting of results as simple as possible. I intend o

[Nant-users] Triggering Distributed Tests

2004-08-04 Thread Castro, Edwin Gabriel (Firing Systems Engr.)
I'm sending this message to both the NAnt and CCNet mailing lists in hopes that someone will have an idea. I'm trying to automate a build/test process but I will need to distribute some of the activities to multiple servers. Our software controls a number of PCI and USB hardware devices. We cannot

Re: [Nant-users] Re: Re: Tasks in an Included file (John Ludlow)

2004-08-04 Thread John Ludlow
> The problem with a warning message is that multiple namespaces isn't necessarily an > error It is if you plan to call targets one of those included files, since that doesn't work. If the namespaces are different then you can only use properties. Nant could be clever and produce a warning mes

[Nant-users] NUnitReport

2004-08-04 Thread John Ludlow
Hi Yet another question, this time about NUnitReport (from NantContrib). I have ben trying to generate a report from the task xml output, it always generates a blank report (that is, it always acts as if there are no tests to be run). No errorsa are shown. I have put full paths to the uni

Re: [Nant-users] msi, components, and subdirs

2004-08-04 Thread James Geurts
Hi Ted, Sorry... I just got done with a move and have not had access to my normal development machines/email. If you can, please email me your build script so that I can have a look at it. I do have access to a machine so that I can "hopefully" help you solve the problem. Thanks Jim > Just c

[Nant-users] How to use dynamic properties

2004-08-04 Thread Merrill Cornish
The dynamic attribute of task is defined as "Specifies whether references to other properties should not be expanded when the value of the property is set, but expanded when the property is actually used. By default, properties will be expanded when set." OK, does that mean: * The value of th

Re: [Nant-users] Build Breaks Down (error BC3007: Reference required to assembly. Add one to your Project)

2004-08-04 Thread Madhan Retnaswamy
Gert, I tried using the latest nant nightly build, but its still not working and giving me the same error. I am using nant-0.85-20040804 nantcontrib-0.85-20040803 I find that the script is actually copying the microsoft application blocks dlls from the Exception Management "bin" di

Re: [Nant-users] Build Breaks Down (error BC3007: Reference required to assembly. Add one to your Project)

2004-08-04 Thread Gert Driesen
Madhan, What version of NAnt are you using ? Can you try using a recent nightly build ? Thanks, Gert - Original Message - From: "Madhan Retnaswamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:23 PM Subject: [Nant-users] Build Breaks Down (error BC300

RE: [Nant-users] Auto incrementing build numbers

2004-08-04 Thread Thibaut Barrère
Hi Tim, What I've seen until today is that most people use the AssemblyInfo.cs AssemblyVersion attribute for that purpose, the natural way of handling (assemblies) versions in .net. That's relevant only if you build .Net project with NAnt of course, I assumed you are in that case. I'm starting to

[Nant-users] Build Breaks Down (error BC3007: Reference required to assembly. Add one to your Project)

2004-08-04 Thread Madhan Retnaswamy
Hello everybody I have a never ending problem with NAnt. I have 2 projects, DataAccess Project and Exception Management Project. The Exception Management Project has direct file references to 2 dlls (Microsoft Application Exception Blocks dlls). The DataAccess Project also references these dll

[Nant-users] Passing a fileset as argument to external program

2004-08-04 Thread Rodrigo B. de Oliveira
Hi, I'm migrating an ant based build file to nant. One of the things I need to migrate is the invocation of the java vm passing a classpath as an argument, ant allows one to do it like this:

RE: [Nant-users] utiltiy to convert *.*proj to *.build

2004-08-04 Thread Bonnett, Evan A
Title: RE: [Nant-users] utiltiy to convert *.*proj to *.build Or you can use an XSLT to transform the proj file to a build file. That's a bit more involved.  If you don't need to do things that Slingshot won't do, use slingshot. Evan A. Bonnett Reynolds and Reynolds, IT ERA Integrated Desking

RE: [Nant-users] utiltiy to convert *.*proj to *.build

2004-08-04 Thread Astie, Sebastien
Felice, You can use the SlingShot tool from the NantContrib project. Sebastien -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felice Vittoria Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:00 AM To: Nant-Users (E-mail) Subject: [Nant-users] utiltiy to convert *.*p

[Nant-users] utiltiy to convert *.*proj to *.build

2004-08-04 Thread Felice Vittoria
Hello all, I'm sure this was answered before ... is there a tool that will convert all of my *.csproj and *.vbproj files into Nant *.build files? If so, where can I get this tool? Thanks, Felice --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG.

RE: [Nant-users] trying to build nantcontrib

2004-08-04 Thread Steve Burkett
thanks Gert, I need to not download files in the middle of the night anymore. current source builds fine :) -Original Message- From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:41 PM To: Steve Burkett; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nant-users] trying to bui

[Nant-users] Auto incrementing build numbers

2004-08-04 Thread Tim Mavers
Is there a way for nant to create (and keep track of) build numbers? I have created special targets that build specific releases of our code which needs to be labeled. I would like to be able to simply increment a build number and use that through the nant xml build file. I checked Ant, and i

Re: [Nant-users] Re: Re: Tasks in an Included file (John Ludlow)

2004-08-04 Thread Merrill Cornish
>>> a message if you include a file with a different namespace would help. The problem with a warning message is that multiple namespaces isn't necessarily an error. In fact, if NAnt takes over the world :-) then we will be more likely to see NAnt scripts published (a la Perl's CPAN) to do var

[Nant-users] Re: Re: Tasks in an Included file (John Ludlow)

2004-08-04 Thread John Ludlow
Nice one! So it was in fact something I'd done, though it wasn't obvious. Yeah, I think perhaps a message if you include a file with a different namespace would help. The reason I used that was because I wanted to see if the schema had been updated at all. Thanks very much. *

[Nant-users] Re: running external program from NAnt

2004-08-04 Thread John Ludlow
> I want to run the Unit Tests in NAnt while that > external program is running. How can I do that? Why not give the task a try? ** Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addres

Re: [Nant-users] msi, components, and subdirs

2004-08-04 Thread Ted Quinby
Just curious if anyone has had the opportunity to look into this issue. I downloaded the latest nightly build of nantcontrib (8/3) and am still getting the same error. Is anybody else experiencing an error when including multiple files within an MSI component or can anyone else replicate this

Re: [Nant-users] problem with bash-specific environment variables

2004-08-04 Thread Gert Driesen
Helmut, If modified to continue creating other properties for environment variables if failonerror="false". Note : in NAnt 0.85 you'll be able to use environment::get-variable() function to retrieve the value of a specific environment variable. Gert - Original Message - From: "Helmut D