RE: [NAnt-users] Want to force expansion of properties in a string

2006-03-16 Thread Noel Gifford
Brian, There isn't any built-in way to evaluate the properties that I could see. I wrote the following script, a while back, to do what you're reqesting. Call it as follows: Where y is a property with unevaluated properties 5 is the number of times to recurse and re-evalu

[NAnt-users] Want to force expansion of properties in a string

2006-03-16 Thread Brian Adams
I have a nant script that generates messages. I want to pass in the message place holders for the properties from the command-line along with the properties values. For instance: nant -buildfile:test.build -D:message="mything's value=${mything}" -D:mything=12345 given the following project: ht

Re: [NAnt-users] Can we dynamically change the platform target?

2006-03-16 Thread Chris Kaiser
Ok, sorry for the newby post. Overriding the property in the build file works. Thanks anyway.ChrisChris Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all,New here. We have a build system where we mix desktop, web, and device applications and would like a unified approach. Now I've noticed that

[NAnt-users] Can we dynamically change the platform target?

2006-03-16 Thread Chris Kaiser
Hello all,New here. We have a build system where we mix desktop, web, and device applications and would like a unified approach. Now I've noticed that I can change the default platform in the config file to build Compact Framework applications but what I can't determine is if I can change t

RE: [NAnt-users] using vb for script task

2006-03-16 Thread Gert Driesen
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Felice Vittoria > Sent: woensdag 15 maart 2006 18:04 > To: Nant-Users (E-mail) > Subject: [NAnt-users] using vb for script task > > Hello all, > > I want to use vb for the script task. Is that

Re: [NAnt-users] Put VBScript batch file code within NAnt

2006-03-16 Thread Gary Feldman
Crawford, Christina wrote: Here are some VBScript's examples I found to use as examples to create shortcuts that I would like to try to embed into my NAnt build script rather than using the NAnt exec task. For this sort of stuff, my preference would be to go with the exec task. What advantag

RE: [NAnt-users] Put VBScript batch file code within NAnt

2006-03-16 Thread Crawford, Christina
Title: Message I was able to do some more research on MSDN and found JSCRIPT code that was similar on what I had found for the _vbscript_ that used windows host scripting and some shell commands. I played around a little bit to get the JSCRIPT code to work in a file by itself, saving the

[NAnt-users] Relative merits of MailLogger vs.

2006-03-16 Thread Arnette, Bill
What are the relative merits of MailLogger vs. the task. One that I've found (discussed on this list) is that MailLogger will truncate the log file if there are special characters in it. Devenv.com appears to insert NULL characters in its output so I can't use the MailLogger. What other things

RE: [NAnt-users] Put VBScript batch file code within NAnt

2006-03-16 Thread Crawford, Christina
Title: Message I read somewhere within the NAnt or NAntContrib mailing lists that it was mentioned to put the _vbscript_ batch file into an NAnt build file.  So, it must be able to be done somehow. I do not know how to convert the _vbscript_ code into a VB.NET code. I am not familiar with _

RE: [NAnt-users] Incorporating NAntContrib into NAnt

2006-03-16 Thread Foster, Richard - PAL
Title: Incorporating NAntContrib into NAnt That's one of the reasons I like keeping NAnt & NantContrib under source code control too. That way when someone pulls the latest version of the build scripts, they also get a version of the tools that understand it.   Just my personal preference