Re: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) within exec

2006-07-20 Thread Robert Smith
Instead of trying to pipe, would something like this work (with regard to the structure of teh exec task) with each of the aruments as an arg value?                    ~RobertOn 7/20/06, Girardelli, Erin E <[EMA

Re: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) within exec

2006-07-20 Thread Martin Gainty
Put all of the commands in a some semblance of a shell script file (.bat) call cmd.exe and pass the command line parameter of shell script M- *This email message and any files transmitted with it contain confidentialinforma

Re: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) within exec

2006-07-20 Thread Girardelli, Erin E
Thanks for the suggestion, Chris.  But, that one didn't work for me either.   Erin   From: Chris Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:23 PMTo: 'Melissa Kacher'; Girardelli, Erin E; nant-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: RE: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) withi

Re: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) within exec

2006-07-20 Thread Steve Whitley
as far as I know piping (or redirection) doesnt work from .net at all.  I seem to remember the Process class not being able to handle it a long time ago. Chris Holt wrote: Actually, I'm not sure that will work either. I think you have to do this:     -Original

Re: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) within exec

2006-07-20 Thread Chris Holt
Actually, I'm not sure that will work either. I think you have to do this:     -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melissa Kacher Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:15 PM To: Girardelli, Erin E; nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subjec

Re: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) within exec

2006-07-20 Thread Girardelli, Erin E
Melissa, I tried your suggestion, but I'm still getting the same error. Thanks for the suggestion. Erin -Original Message- From: Melissa Kacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:15 PM To: Girardelli, Erin E; nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [NAnt-us

Re: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) within exec

2006-07-20 Thread Melissa Kacher
Your xml code has an illegal use of quotes. Try this: Thanks, Melissa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Girardelli, Erin E Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 2:09 PM To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (

[NAnt-users] Can't use pipe (|) within exec

2006-07-20 Thread Girardelli, Erin E
Hi, When I try to use a pipe or redirecting arrow in the exec task, I get a failure saying the program I executed has the wrong number of arguments. Here's what it looks like within my script: I get the same failure no matter what program I am using; it isn't unique to my "p4.exe" progr

Re: [NAnt-users] Strange error with C# properties

2006-07-20 Thread Andy Duan Nguyen
Hi Gert,I sent you a repro project earlier. Here is more information I found out: Threshold is the only property that gets NAnt choke. It is defined under the method section of dispinterface as:[propget, id(18), helpstring("property Threshold")] HRESULT Threshold([out, retval] short *pVal); [proppu

Re: [NAnt-users] NAnt and StarTeam

2006-07-20 Thread Larry Wanzer
We use the Updater Application Block from Microsoft for our application, and the "buildmanifest" step creates the ServerManifest.xml file that the application block uses to determine if the bootstrapper needs to download new files.  The executable referenced in that step is one that I wrote which g

Re: [NAnt-users] building a project

2006-07-20 Thread Steve Whitley
Thanks. Adam Gritt wrote: The easiest way I know of is the following:                           On 7/20/06, Steve Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is there an easy way (I'm really surprised there isnt already a task for just a project) to compile a single proj

Re: [NAnt-users] building a project

2006-07-20 Thread Gary Feldman
Steve Whitley wrote: > is there an easy way (I'm really surprised there isnt already a task for > just a project) to compile a single project? > For VS 2003 projects, the NAnt task is perfectly happy with a single project file instead of a solution file. Gary --

Re: [NAnt-users] Feature request

2006-07-20 Thread Gary Feldman
Bonio Lopez wrote: > Hi Gary, > >> What happens if you just make a change to p22? How would you rebuild it >> > without rebuilding the rest? > I am sorry, but I don't understand where is the difference to the current > approach. The nant will run over all projects and see that p1, p11,

Re: [NAnt-users] NAnt and StarTeam

2006-07-20 Thread Steve Kopp
Hi Larry, Thanks for this info and it is very helpful. We are just now working on our Windows installation process and have many questions, especially relating to StarTeam, so it was very nice to hear from a current user. Your script - target name="buildmanifest" - refers to an .exe and an .xml

Re: [NAnt-users] building a project

2006-07-20 Thread Adam Gritt
The easiest way I know of is the following:                          On 7/20/06, Steve Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is there an easy way (I'm really surprised there isnt already a task forjust a project) to compile a single project?---

[NAnt-users] building a project

2006-07-20 Thread Steve Whitley
is there an easy way (I'm really surprised there isnt already a task for just a project) to compile a single project? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get t

Re: [NAnt-users] Feature request

2006-07-20 Thread Bonio Lopez
Hi Gary, >What happens if you just make a change to p22? How would you rebuild it without rebuilding the rest? I am sorry, but I don't understand where is the difference to the current approach. The nant will run over all projects and see that p1, p11, p12,p13 are not changed. So it will not re

Re: [NAnt-users] Feature request

2006-07-20 Thread Gary Feldman
Bonio Lopez wrote: > Hi Gary, > Lets take a real example of my current project. > > Project with subprojects, > Let me be more specific. Are these .Net projects (i.e. C#, VB.Net, etc.)? or something entirely different? > p1, p11, p12, p13, p21, p22, p23, > > p11, p12, p13 depend on p1, but not

Re: [NAnt-users] Feature request

2006-07-20 Thread Bonio Lopez
Hi Gary, Lets take a real example of my current project. Project with subprojects, p1, p11, p12, p13, p21, p22, p23, p11, p12, p13 depend on p1, but not under each other P21, p22, p23 depend on p1x but not under each other So I could build p11,p12,p13 in parallel after I have finished with p1 and

Re: [NAnt-users] Feature request

2006-07-20 Thread Gary Feldman
Evans, Jonathan (2) wrote: > There are definitely cases where having compiled a couple of base projects > the dependency tree then starts separating off into unrelated branches. And > having compiled one dll it is immediatly possible to start testing or > documenting it whilst the build process

Re: [NAnt-users] FxCop and return

2006-07-20 Thread Gary Feldman
Darren Gage wrote: > > I run FxCop via the command so I am sure to run the same > Command Line version we do when running FxCop through Visual Studio. > The Task is below: > > ... > > When I get FxCop Errors or Warnings, the build does not fail (I don't > reach the catch block), even though I

Re: [NAnt-users] Feature request

2006-07-20 Thread Evans, Jonathan (2)
There are definitely cases where having compiled a couple of base projects the dependency tree then starts separating off into unrelated branches. And having compiled one dll it is immediatly possible to start testing or documenting it whilst the build process moves onto the next dll. ___

Re: [NAnt-users] Feature request

2006-07-20 Thread Gary Feldman
Bonio Lopez wrote: > Hi, > Meanwhile quite any machine has more then one processor (even Intel with > Dual Core and HT). > Would not it be nice to add multithreading to nant? As starting point I > could imagine to add some attribute to task, like > > >

[NAnt-users] Info on trycatch task

2006-07-20 Thread Ramya Niranjan
Hello,   I have a query on the trycatch task.   Can I specify a particular type of exception to catch in the catch block. Like for eg in VB.NET if we want to catch a validation exception in a particular block of code we could say something like:   try  //Block of code to execute   catch ex as

Re: [NAnt-users] Do you use includes?

2006-07-20 Thread Evans, Jonathan (2)
I used exactly that approach but as our projects grew larger ended up with massive files and awkward configuration. As a result we have developed a series of custom tasks that simplify the configuration and management a lot. We had a set of include files (global, solution, project), a solution

Re: [NAnt-users] Do you use includes?

2006-07-20 Thread William_Martin
I certainly think this is a good way to go, but I don't fragment to quite the level you have here. Basically, I have a file called generictasks.build which contains tasks such as compile, clean, assemblyinfo etc.  Another file called properties.build contains property definitions that are global