[Nant-users] RE: [nant-dev] Editing .build files w/syntax hilighting in VS.NET

2003-11-18 Thread Erv Walter
You can also set this by right-clicking on a .build file in a project (add one to a project temporarily if you need to) and choosing Open With... Choose "HTML/XML Editor" and click Set as Default. -Original Message- From: Matthew Mastracci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, Novemb

RE: [Nant-users] Mirror task?

2003-10-07 Thread Erv Walter
I really like the idea of a mirror task (see RoboCopy.exe (command line tool) for an example of excellent mirroring capabilities). However, I'm not sure I understand what the second fileset is for. From a schema point of view, I'd thing this would be sufficient:

RE: [Nant-users] Fail Task

2003-09-26 Thread Erv Walter
You're ifnot has failonerror="false". This is explicitly saying, "If my task or any child of my task fails for any reason, continue the build." So when your task executes, it "fails" and falls out to the task that then says, "I'll ignore that failure". -Original Message- From: Sayah, J

RE: [Nant-users] Antw: Nant-users digest, Vol 1 #419 - 2 msgs (Urlaub/Vacation)

2003-09-22 Thread Erv Walter
Can an administrator please unsubscribe this guy, so that we don't get these emails everyday for the next 20 days...? -Original Message- From: Michael Buchberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nant-users] Antw: Nant-use

RE: [Nant-users] How to list available targets?

2003-09-15 Thread Erv Walter
If you type "nant -projecthelp" you will get exactly what you want. -Original Message- From: Narayanasamy, Sundar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:58 PM To: Jaroslaw Kowalski; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Nant-users] How to list available targets? Let me r

RE: Obsolescing NAntContrib [was RE: [nant-dev] Re: [Nant-users] 0.8.3 final]

2003-09-09 Thread Erv Walter
that many people use as core, there are and always will be a few that are niche tasks. -Original Message- From: David Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 3:03 PM To: Erv Walter; Foley, Cash; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Obsolescing NAntContrib [was RE: [na

RE: [nant-dev] Re: [Nant-users] 0.8.3 final

2003-09-09 Thread Erv Walter
All of the NantContrib tasks are included as binaries in the Nant 0.8.3 release (look in the .\nant-0.8.3.50105\bin\ subdirectory of the release .zip file). Get it here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nant/nant-0.8.3.zip?download If you want to build it from scratch or if you want to follow

RE: [Nant-users] how-to specify the framework version to use in order to build ?

2003-09-05 Thread Erv Walter
Title: R: [Nant-users] how-to specify the framework version to use in order to build ? Also, confirm that you have Visual Studio 2003 Professional or higher installed on the machine you're building from.  The Compact Framework is not part of the free .NET SDK, so you have to have Visual Studio

RE: [Nant-users] Exception Line Numbers

2003-08-27 Thread Erv Walter
Your application has to be compiled in debug mode (see the csc "debug" attribute). From: Jordan Redner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:51 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Nant-users] Exception Line Numbers I am having a hard time enabling detailed line numbers

RE: [Nant-users] delete task - problem with exclude

2003-08-27 Thread Erv Walter
It's not intuitive, but we use something like this and it works ok. This erases all files except the config directory and except for *.config in the top level directory or in config\.

RE: [Nant-users] Executing a target more than once

2003-08-25 Thread Erv Walter
Check out the "force" attribute for the call task in the documentation. Normally, a target only needs to run once (targets usually represent some set of compilation tasks and once something is compiled, there's no need to do it again later. You can override this behavior with the "force" attribut

RE: [Nant-users] Deployment

2003-08-15 Thread Erv Walter
Title: Message None of that happens automatically.  ASP.NET manages this for web apps.  The .NET Framework has the ability to do this for other apps as well, but you have to write some code to make it happen when you create a new appdomain.  By default, .NET assembly DLLs are locked while the

RE: [Nant-users] problem with references and standard libs

2003-08-14 Thread Erv Walter
That's a good point. I have never tried having multiple references nodes. It could be that the second one is getting completely ignored! -Original Message- From: Anthony LoveFrancisco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:43 PM To: 'Erv Walter'; &#

RE: [Nant-users] problem with references and standard libs

2003-08-08 Thread Erv Walter
You probably don't ever want frompath="true" for a reference fileset. Try asis="true" instead for framework assemblies. -Original Message- From: Jesper Rasmussen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nant-users] problem with refe

RE: [Nant-users] problem with references and standard libs

2003-08-08 Thread Erv Walter
sen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:52 AM To: Erv Walter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nant-users] problem with references and standard libs Ah!. Thanks. heh i read "asis" hmm I don't know that word ah! As IS :) Ok i just tested, and the mentioned

RE: [Nant-users] problem with references and standard libs

2003-08-07 Thread Erv Walter
but if i copy the dll's to the ${lib.dir} and move the two includes lines to that references section it works. btw im using 1.0 framework and nant 0.8.3 cheers Jesper Erv Walter wrote: >You probably don't ever want frompath="true" for a reference fileset. &g

RE: [Nant-users] nant-0.8.3-rc2 does not build?

2003-08-03 Thread Erv Walter
It is still the case. I consider it a "bug" that the rc2 zip file contains the source code but doesn't contain everything needed to build. We should either just distribute binaries or we should have a _working_ binaries+source archive. -Original Message- From: Scott Ford [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Nant-users] Slingshot and VS sln files

2003-07-31 Thread Erv Walter
Slingshot does not support VS.NET 2003 files.  I also belive slingshot is no longer actively supported and has been replaced with the task in the latest versions of NAnt. From: Cohen, Noah (CA - Ottawa) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:09 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]S

RE: [Nant-users] Building Deployment Projects in NAnt

2003-07-31 Thread Erv Walter
There is an task in NAntContrib. It's not as "wizard-y" as creating a deployment task in Visual Studio.NET. If you need things to remain simple, then calling devenv.exe is a good choice. If you have time to learn about the Microsoft Windows Installer framework (get the SDK) then the task is qu

RE: [Nant-users] Framework Targeting

2003-07-21 Thread Erv Walter
Here are my (non-official) thoughts: Setting currentframework and/or changing the default in nant.exe.config is the correct thing to do. Along with that, you should remove the frompath="true" attributes. I can't think of a scenario where you would want frompath="true" on a reference. For your

RE: [Nant-users] Ant vs. NAnt

2003-07-21 Thread Erv Walter
Title: RE: [Nant-users] Ant vs. NAnt How will you be "porting" your .NET code to Linux and Mac?  Mono?  If so, Nant works on Linux with Mono today, and I assume it would work on Mac as well as soon as Mono works on Mac (if it doesn't already).   The main difference between Nant and Ant is wha

RE: Project Structure Ideas (Was: RE: [Nant-users] Re: [nant-dev] Building Projects With NAnt)

2003-06-27 Thread Erv Walter
We do something similar except our master build file explicitly calls the sub build files in the correct order. There is some elegance to the idea of adding a subproject without having to modify an existing build file. That doesn't work for us, and it doesn't work in general when you have cross-s

RE: [Nant-users] problems compiling a simple ConsoleWindow application

2003-06-25 Thread Erv Walter
First, I assume you have an Imports line in your source, but I'll ask anyway. Second, no, I don't think vbc.exe figures our default references automatically like csc.exe for C# code does. For VB.NET code, you will need to list the specific references in your build file. You might be able to make

RE: [Nant-users] Deplyment Package??

2003-06-25 Thread Erv Walter
I believe there is an task in NAntContrib that you can use to create windows installers. -Original Message- From: Arvind M A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am pretty new to Nant and wanted to know whether it is possible to b

RE: [Nant-users] ASP.net projects

2003-06-25 Thread Erv Walter
ASP.NET is not that complex. It's basically just a bunch of text files (*.as?x and web.config) along with a class library (or several class libraries). We just build all the code-behind classes into a single class library assembly. We then copy all the text files and any dependencies to their fi

RE: [Nant-users] help with the solution task

2003-06-23 Thread Erv Walter
Actually, I'll speak up and request that we don't add paths at install. We should strive to be as "xcopy friendly" as possible requiring little to know installation. It's fine to have an installer to make it easier for newcomers, but we need to allow advanced usage. For example, at my company, we

RE: [Nant-users] Solution incorrectly compiled against .NET version 1.0 (bug?)

2003-06-17 Thread Erv Walter
Title: Solution incorrectly compiled against .NET version 1.0 (bug?) The task does not seem to respect the defaultframework setting.  Several messages to this list in the past couple days suggested that the task works by calling the csc.exe directly and it appears to choose the wrong one