Re: [NAnt-users] VB project compilation issue

2007-08-10 Thread John Cole
Ashish, You’ll need to register the dll’s for VB6.exe to compile your vbp. Once you can compile it in the IDE, you can call the NAntContrib vb6 task to compile your vbp for you. VB6 doesn’t have a way to provide references outside of the normal COM system. It isn’t a NAnt thing, it’s a VB6 th

Re: [NAnt-users] deploying to remote server using NAnt

2006-10-13 Thread John Cole
We have our test machines running CC.net with a nant build script that copies and installs all of the applications. Works really well, and you can use the cctray to see that everything ran. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mandar ambr

Re: [NAnt-users] Conditional Compile based on VB6 Return

2006-08-14 Thread John Cole
TED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 4:15 PM To: John Cole; Nant Users Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] Conditional Compile based on VB6 Return John, I'm having a problem with the vb6.make task (the new one). This task complains if the dll that I'm compiling exists in the first place. So, I

Re: [NAnt-users] Conditional Compile based on VB6 Return

2006-08-11 Thread John Cole
dependencies set correct). Lots of automagic stuff. John -Original Message- From: Eric Fetzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 10:08 AM To: John Cole; Nant Users Subject: Re: [NAnt-users] Conditional Compile based on VB6 Return John, I ran into a function that you use in

Re: [NAnt-users] Conditional Compile based on VB6 Return

2006-08-11 Thread John Cole
know and I'll bundle them together. Thanks, Eric --- Eric Fetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a cc.net dude, John, can you slip me a link? > > --- John Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Eric, > > I posted some nant targets on the cc.net

Re: [NAnt-users] Conditional Compile based on VB6 Return

2006-08-10 Thread John Cole
Eric, I posted some nant targets on the cc.net wiki that will do what you want. Take a look at those and see if those work for you. We do the same thing here. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fetzer Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2

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

2006-07-19 Thread John Cole
We use includes a great deal. The only thing you should do in your example (we are using an older version of 0.85) is to move the includes above your target. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Frederick Sent: Wednesday, July 19,

RE: [NAnt-users] MSI Task: Wrong default location/targetdir

2006-03-20 Thread John Cole
Could you post your msi target? I posted an example MSI/MSM target that put a program into a similar directory structure last week. John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Schroedter Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:57 PM To: nant

RE: [NAnt-users] NANT MSI

2006-03-15 Thread John Cole
Kevin,   Search the mailing list a week or so ago.  I posted a sample msm/msi task that works for us.  You do need to understand how msi works at least a little bit though J   John   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Kirkpatrick Sent: Wednesda

RE: [NAnt-users] Incorporating NAntContrib into NAnt

2006-03-15 Thread John Cole
one without building the other.      My opinion has always been that building the NAnt MSI installer was the best way for windows users to install NAnt/NAntContrib, but I haven't been able to get the MSI built in months (our version is 1927 from May of last year).     But either way works.  

RE: [NAnt-users] How to use Nant and Nantcontrib to do the functi ons of a VS .NET 2003 setup project

2006-03-09 Thread John Cole
d build the setup project that way. John Cole -Original Message- From: Crawford, Christina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:58 PM To: John Cole Subject: RE: [NAnt-users] How to use Nant and Nantcontrib to do the functions of a VS .NET 2003 setup project Does t

RE: [NAnt-users] How to use Nant and Nantcontrib to do the functi ons of a VS .NET 2003 setup project

2006-03-09 Thread John Cole
n the MSM and MSI tasks. John

RE: [NAnt-users] Writing/Appending to a file

2006-03-07 Thread John Cole
Look at the 'echo' task. http://nant.sourceforge.net/release/latest/help/tasks/echo.html John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Young, Jason (GE Indust, GE Fanuc) Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:23 PM To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net S

RE: [NAnt-users] replacing a linefeed....

2006-02-23 Thread John Cole
bject: Re: [NAnt-users] replacing a linefeed Sorry about the accidental mouse click sending my previous mail void of new content. John Cole wrote: > > > > Is there any way you can get the style of argument for the task to work for you? It would keep the easy-

[NAnt-users] replacing a linefeed....

2006-02-22 Thread John Cole
I'm trying to replace a crlf in a property using the string::replace function. The reason for this is because of a different xsltproc program that I'm using (I'm trying to switch from the cygwin version to the windows version and it won't accept linefeeds in the command). Here is my property:

RE: [NAnt-users] building nant msi...

2006-02-22 Thread John Cole
Any word on this? I've been building a MSI package for use by our developers for a while, and I'd like to make another with the current version. The last one I have is getting quite old. Thanks, John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[NAnt-users] building nant msi...

2006-02-16 Thread John Cole
I'm trying to make a new NAnt/NAntContrib msi file using the msi target in the NAntContrib.build file, but things seem to have been changed around :-) What is the correct sequence for building nant and nantcontrib so you can use the msi target? Thanks, John

RE: [NAnt-users] status build

2006-01-10 Thread John Cole
processed, which you set as a property.  If you set the property 'continue' to true, then it will skip any that are in that file.   Hope this is use

[Nant-users] use .net 1.1?

2005-11-10 Thread John Cole
Is there a way to have nant use .net 1.1 even though 2.0 is installed? We are seeing a lot of weirdness with our scripts with 2.0 and I can't get Nant compiled under 2.0 at the moment. Just running our current version with 1.1 seems like a good temporary solution. Thanks, John

RE: [Nant-users] compiling nant with .net 2.0 sdk...

2005-11-04 Thread John Cole
nt: Friday, November 04, 2005 11:33 AM To: John Cole Cc: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nant-users] compiling nant with .net 2.0 sdk... Good Afternoon John 0.85RC3 was toast ..I spent all day saturday trying to get this build to build using the Full debug for nmake nmake -d -p -f Make

[Nant-users] compiling nant with .net 2.0 sdk...

2005-11-04 Thread John Cole
Hello, I've installed the .net 2.0 sdk on my system (along with the 1.1 sdk) and now I'm having a lot of trouble building nant and nantcontrib. Here is what I used to do -- nmake -f Makefile.nmake bootstrap\NAnt.exe package cd .. cd NAntContrib ..\nant\bu

RE: [Nant-users] Path Too Long Exception

2005-10-25 Thread John Cole
Every time I have run into a path length problem, I had to move my tree closer to the root (I use a c:\src directory now).  I think this is a windows limitation, so you might not see it if your on linux.   John Cole   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[Nant-users] task...

2005-08-10 Thread John Cole
Also, does the MSI and MSM task work ok with the WI3 SDK? Thanks, John Cole - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this ema

RE: [Nant-users] depreciated...

2005-06-03 Thread John Cole
>>Also, can I ask how did you notice this deprecation? >>(I couldn't see it in the nightly readme.html) I found it by using a recent build of NAnt from CVS (.85.0.1972 I rebuild myself to put in a few interop dll's our custom scripts need). When I ran a test build, my logs nearly doubled beca

[Nant-users] depreciated...

2005-06-02 Thread John Cole
I noticed that has been depreciated. This should be reflected in the documentation and an example of how the statement be used instead of the . Thanks, John Cole - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the

[Nant-users] RE: [nant-dev] [Help][Nant-Users][USE NANT To Compile VB6.0 Code]

2005-04-11 Thread John Cole
ile is a custom script we have to load a file into a property. There is a NAnt equivalent for that now (loadfile?) that should work here. I posted a few other VBP nant scripts a few months ago, you may want to search for those and see if you find them useful. Hope this helps. John Cole -O

RE: [Nant-users] Removing files on uninstallation.

2005-03-01 Thread John Cole
             I would try it without the extra files and install/remove to see if it actually removes the files, then add includes one at a time until it fails.   Third part apps often put one file per component, which is something to try also.   John Cole

RE: [Nant-users] Removing files on uninstallation.

2005-03-01 Thread John Cole
om/library/default.asp?url="">  or else 3rd party packages like wise or installshield won't pick up your module names and descriptions properly.   John Cole   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burton, Kevin Sent: Tuesday, March 01,

[Nant-users] how to build with package target using nmake...

2005-02-24 Thread John Cole
to generate them or specify t heir location with the 'nant.doc.dir' property.   Total time: 523.3 seconds.   Thanks,   John Cole -This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual

RE: [Nant-users] user submitted

2005-02-22 Thread John Cole
I have added a few more. One to start SQL server and one to execute a query to an ODBC datasource. I'll see about adding more. John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian MacLean Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 7:47 AM To: NAnt

RE: [Nant-users] MSI

2005-02-09 Thread John Cole
Craig, Here is a MSM and MSI taks that we use on one of our simple .net projects. We build a msm file and then a msi, using the msm file we generated (so we can have a stand alone installation and the merge module to go in a larger one). Hope this helps. John

[Nant-users] Problems building latest CVS of nant.

2005-01-07 Thread John Cole
I'm trying to recompile NAnt from CVS, and it's currently failing with the error below. Also, is the bin\nant.exe in cvs really from 12/17? Thanks, John -- [exec] NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.1812.0; dev; 12/17/2004) [exec] Copyright

RE: [Nant-users] which CVS client

2004-12-03 Thread John Cole
the CVS admins, who tend to use the command line a lot (one of whom is me). John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian MacLean Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:04 AM To: George Smith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nant-users

RE: [Nant-users] 0.85 msi install

2004-12-03 Thread John Cole
e to deploy NAnt internally here, and the MSI is the perfect tool for that. It's a fantastic product (both of them) and there is just something right about NAnt/NAntContrib being able to build its own installer :-) I hope the final decision of the MSI will keep NAnt/NAntContrib easy t

RE: [Nant-users] 0.85 msi install

2004-12-03 Thread John Cole
Gert, What are your reasons for not copying NAntContrib into NAnt? It feels simple and safe, I was wondering why we shouldn't do that. Thanks, John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rutger Dijkstra Sent: Friday, December 03, 2

RE: [Nant-users] MSI Task Versus WIX

2004-12-02 Thread John Cole
tax.  Add to that, if you hack on NAnt at all, add custom scripts and such, using the MSI makes things just a little bit easier to change.   The MSI task has had it's problems, but overall, I think I'm going to stick to it.   John Cole   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [Nant-users] 0.85 msi install

2004-12-02 Thread John Cole
ntContrb inside NAnt). But I think the msi tasks will need to be modified a good bit to accomplish this. Hey, those are my opinions. Others have the final say :-) Thanks, John Cole -Original Message- From: Jim Geurts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:28 AM To

RE: [Nant-users] 0.85 msi install

2004-12-02 Thread John Cole
that patch. John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Geurts Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:46 AM To: Gert Driesen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nant-users] 0.85 msi install Hey Gert, I'm not sure if this was brough

RE: [Nant-users] task requires mergemod.dll

2004-11-19 Thread John Cole
Mergemod.dll is also included in the Platform SDK for WindowsXP SP2 (version 2x of the dll), and with Orca in the PSDK (version 3x of the dll). John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roman Semenov Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:31

RE: [Nant-users]

2004-11-10 Thread John Cole
Arg! :-) I'm running NAnt 0.85 (Build 0.85.1762.0; net-1.1.win32; dev; 10/28/2004) has something been fixed that would effect this? Thanks, John -Original Message- From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 4:52 PM To: John Cole; [EMAIL PROT

RE: [Nant-users] Possible bug with property::exists

2004-11-10 Thread John Cole
Title: Possible bug with property::exists     should be     John -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Nant-users]

2004-11-10 Thread John Cole
---http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> I've tried it with and without the namespaceuri, but I can't seem to set the release_type xsl parameter to a

RE: FW: [Nant-users] resource file problem...

2004-11-09 Thread John Cole
Matt, That seemed to be the problem, thanks! John -Original Message- From: Matt Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:42 AM To: John Cole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: [Nant-users] resource file problem... Hi John, Try removing the prefix attribute

FW: [Nant-users] resource file problem...

2004-11-09 Thread John Cole
I think I sent this to only Gert, so I'm reposting it back to the list. John -Original Message- From: John Cole Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:42 AM To: 'Gert Driesen' Subject: RE: [Nant-users] resource file problem... Gert, I had tried to with the original post.

RE: [Nant-users] #develop combine to nant...

2004-11-08 Thread John Cole
cript like: I think your is far superior, however, so I'm going to try and get yours working as well. Thanks, John Cole -Original Message- From: Matt Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Nant-users] resource file problem...

2004-11-05 Thread John Cole
HelloWorld test with the build file. What am I doing wrong with the resources tag? Rename the zix file to zip. Once I have this working, I'll post the xsl file. Thanks, John Cole - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended

[Nant-users] #develop combine to nant...

2004-11-04 Thread John Cole
Has anyone created a xsl file to convert #D's combine to a build file? I searched but couldn't find a reference to one, either here or on the #D site. Thanks, John Cole - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended

RE: [NAntC-Dev] RE: [Nant-users] VB6 build dependencies

2004-11-02 Thread John Cole
but it works for us. Could you explain a little more on the vb6 task and the 2 digit versions? You have me worried :-) As far as the regex goes, please optimise and share ;-) John Cole -Original Message- From: Subbu Balakrishnan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4

RE: [Nant-users] VB6 build dependencies

2004-11-02 Thread John Cole
t) so hopefully

RE: [Nant-users] VB6 build dependencies

2004-10-21 Thread John Cole
ks out of these, but I've been having trouble getting all of NAnt and NAntContrib to compile fully lately :-) John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Fetzer Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:00 PM To: Crowhurst,Christian; [EMAIL PR

RE: [Nant-users] using task on files

2004-09-02 Thread John Cole
); } ]]></code> ----- John Cole -Original Message- From: Shawn Haigh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 8:43 AM To: John Cole Subject: RE: [Nant-users] using task on files John I came across your post and it looks like your custom func

RE: [Nant-users] What is Nantpad worth?

2004-08-25 Thread John Cole
es file and save. Load a .build file and then press F5. Commenting is on Ctrl+Shift+Q. And it's all open source. John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Geurts Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] C

RE: [Nant-users] nant package stuck in loop on 'in cahinable read .'

2004-08-23 Thread John Cole
Ian, It builds properly without the package target, but then NAntContrib fails to build :-) I ran it with the package target again and it is still looping on "in chainable read" Thanks, John Cole -Original Message- From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

[Nant-users] nant package stuck in loop on 'in cahinable read.'

2004-08-20 Thread John Cole
hainable read. value is 68 in chainable read. value is 68 in chainable read. value is 79 in chainable read. value is 79 in chainable read. value is 79 in chainable read. value is 67 --- Thanks, John Cole - This

[Nant-users] nant package stuck in loop on 'in cahinable read.'

2004-08-20 Thread John Cole
hainable read. value is 68 in chainable read. value is 68 in chainable read. value is 79 in chainable read. value is 79 in chainable read. value is 79 in chainable read. value is 67 --- Thanks, John Cole - This

[Nant-users] endless loop in nant package task for cvs head...

2004-08-19 Thread John Cole
kill this after 20 minutes or so of these lines :-) Thanks, John Cole - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in e

[Nant-users] zip task fails with out of memory exception...

2004-08-17 Thread John Cole
You can send these files to a compressed folder fine. FYI I have 2GB of ram, and I'm showing 1.4GB free. Any ideas? Thanks, John Cole - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity

[Nant-users] nant-contrib msi task fails in cvs head...

2004-08-17 Thread John Cole
-f:NAntContrib.build xcopy /E /S /Y build\nantcontrib-0.85-debug ..\nant\build\net-1.1.win32\nant-0.85-debug ..\nant\build\net-1.1.win32\nant-0.85-debug\bin\nant -D:nant.dir="..\nant\build\net-1.1.win32\nant-0.85-debug" -f:NAntContrib.build msi ---

RE: [Nant-users] Question on MSI Task

2004-08-10 Thread John Cole
BUILD FAILED --- Any ideas as to what is causing the problem? I've run this from a simple command prompt and the VS.net command prompt (which sets up the enviroment to use the version 13 cl.exe) and get the same error. Thanks, John Cole

RE: [Nant-users] building cvs head...

2004-08-02 Thread John Cole
Using 'net-1.1' framework on 'win32' platform. ---- Thanks, John Cole -Original Message- From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:21 AM To: John Cole; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[Nant-users] building cvs head...

2004-08-02 Thread John Cole
le lately getting NAnt to build. Thanks, John Cole - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify t

RE: [Nant-users] cvs head not building, again?

2004-07-23 Thread John Cole
ual Studio/VC98/bin/cl.exe which is part of Visual Studio 6. Which cl.exe should I be using? I have Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio .Net 2003 loaded on my machine. Thanks, John Cole -Original Message- From: Gert Driesen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:19 AM To: J

[Nant-users] cvs head not building, again?

2004-07-23 Thread John Cole
basis :-) Here is what I have so far: -- ---

[Nant-users] CVS HEAD not compiling...

2004-07-13 Thread John Cole
nightly; 6/19/2004) Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Gerry Shaw NAnt Team Thanks, John Cole - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed

RE: [Nant-users] modify system path from msi

2004-07-08 Thread John Cole
Thanks James! I had loaded my msi package on a virtual machine, and though that it didn't set that. I'll repeat my test and pay better attention this time :-) John Cole -Original Message- From: James Geurts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:35 AM To:

[Nant-users] modify system path from msi

2004-07-07 Thread John Cole
James,   How would I modify the system path from an MSI task?  I'd like to add the installation path\bin for the NAnt installation.   Thanks!   John Cole-This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use o

[Nant-users] how to modify system path?

2004-07-02 Thread John Cole
.   Thanks,   John Cole-This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This messag

RE: [Nant-users] using task on files

2004-06-29 Thread John Cole
sregarding guidelines, I perfer to use built in tasks over custom anything. So if I can do the same thing with built in functions or tasks, I'd be happy to switch :-) John Cole -Original Message- From: Ian MacLean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:03 PM To: John Col

RE: [Nant-users] using task on files

2004-06-28 Thread John Cole
additional functionality comming that should do what you need too. John Cole -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeroen Zwartepoorte Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 5:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nant-users] using task on files Hi, >From lo

[Nant-users]

2004-06-18 Thread John Cole
work via a proxy server. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307220 I read in the newsgroup about the style sheet not using a validated parser, is that still the case? What are the odds of getting this working? Thanks, John Cole PS. James, I'll be looking into t

RE: [Nant-users] MailLogger

2004-06-08 Thread John Cole
I have these properties at the top of my project (they are not in a target) I've changed my mailserver and addresses. The ${install_version} is another property I set in the script. John Cole -Original Me

[Nant-users] delete task problem...

2004-05-22 Thread John Cole
;m not familiar with that aspect of .Net yet.     Any insights would be apreciated.   Thanks,   John Cole