Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-22 Thread Gary Feldman
Thibaut Barrère wrote: ... We have some third party library (namely, Syncfusion Essential Suite) which is massively used in our components (here the CCNet+NAnt setup drives 60+ solutions). A new release came out with a change in the licensing strategy (the content of the .licx file had to be

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-22 Thread Gary Feldman
Martin Gainty wrote: Good Morning/Bonjour I would like to ask Gary if there any version of make has capability to handle building a solution such as the Nant Task solution keeping in mind that the solution task handles all permutations of environment development, uat, qa, release as well as

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-22 Thread Martin Gainty
Barrère To: Gary Feldman Cc: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies While I see many advantages (and disadvantages) in NAnt, I can't thinkof anythin

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-22 Thread Thibaut Barrère
While I see many advantages (and disadvantages) in NAnt, I can't thinkof anything off the top of my head that it can do, but that can't be done with ordinary make/bash (or other scripting language).  NAntbenefits from having a centralized repository of tasks, so that we don'teach have to build our

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-21 Thread Gary Feldman
Anderson, Kelly wrote: If you mean "keeping a copy of the results of a build" ... If you mean "keeping a copy of the source that went into a build" ... If you mean "mirroring a file tree to a second location" ... Yeah, that's a good example of what I'm talking about... Well, yes, NAnt

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-21 Thread Anderson, Kelly
> If you mean "keeping a copy of the results of a build" ... > If you mean "keeping a copy of the source that went into a build" ... > If you mean "mirroring a file tree to a second location" ... Yeah, that's a good example of what I'm talking about... I bet we could come up with a pile of exampl

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-21 Thread Bevan Arps
Kelly Anderson wrote: > Why wouldn't you use NAnt to do backups? For what it's worth ... And depending on what kind of backup you mean ... I do. If you mean "keeping a copy of the results of a build" ... ... In all my software build scripts, I have a "release" target that does the whole build

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-21 Thread Crowhurst,Christian
>Why wouldn't you use NAnt to do backups? Is that database backups? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anderson, Kelly Sent: 21 September 2005 16:59 To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from comm

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-21 Thread Anderson, Kelly
> >and I'm wondering why the "marketing department" isn't > making more hay > >out of the other things NAnt could do. > > While I see many advantages (and disadvantages) in NAnt, I > can't think > of anything off the top of my head that it can do, but that can't be > done with ordinary make/bas

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-19 Thread Gary Feldman
Anderson, Kelly wrote: I didn't so much have a question, as an observation. I do see MANY clear advantages of NAnt over make and shell scripts as you do. My only issue was just with how it's being presented. It seems that NAnt would be very good at solving a lot of problems that make would have

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-16 Thread Troy Laurin
> Thank you for a pleasant discussion of NAnt. I'm quite excited to be > using it and learning about it. I hope that someday soon, I'll be able > to answer questions here rather than just asking. I've really enjoyed > the separation of concerns thread too. Nice thinking! > > -Kelly Nothing wrong

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-16 Thread Anderson, Kelly
t; Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 12:13 PM > To: Anderson, Kelly > Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line > without dependencies > > Hello again Kelly, > > You wrote: > Having your build scripts be cross platform may be important to Java > people,

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-16 Thread Morss, Charlie
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anderson, Kelly Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:49 PM To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies This is NOT a NAnt bash. I am NOT complaining. I am trying to gain insight into NAnt. All

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-16 Thread Anderson, Kelly
I didn't so much have a question, as an observation. I do see MANY clear advantages of NAnt over make and shell scripts as you do. My only issue was just with how it's being presented. It seems that NAnt would be very good at solving a lot of problems that make would have difficulty solving. I gues

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-16 Thread Foster, Richard - PAL
ag like would either validate against the schema, or not. I hope this helps to answer your question. Regards, Richard -Original Message- From: Anderson, Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 16:47 To: Foster, Richard - PAL Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-15 Thread Bevan Arps
Kelly Anderson wrote: > All of the "marketing" for NAnt seems to indicate that it is a > replacement for make. > ... > Sure, you CAN write a make system with a shell script, but the beauty of > make was that the dependency checking was implicit and built in. It > seems with NAnt that you have to

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-15 Thread Troy Laurin
On 9/15/05, Bill Arnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With my suggestion, 'nant -only:projectC' would only do the body of the > projectC target and not execute the dependencies without cluttering the > build file with dependency-only targets, or with if statements and unless > attributes that short

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-15 Thread Anderson, Kelly
-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies Bill Arnette wrote: > >I asked a similar question a while ago and never got a response. >Basically my question was what is the Nant equivalent of a C++ makefile? > > >

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-15 Thread Gary Feldman
Bill Arnette wrote: I asked a similar question a while ago and never got a response. Basically my question was what is the Nant equivalent of a C++ makefile? There is no answer to that, because there's no such thing as a canonical C++ makefile. Perhaps you have in mind the NMake files th

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-15 Thread Anderson, Kelly
ng marketed as if it were something that it isn't really... comments? -Kelly -Original Message- From: Foster, Richard - PAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:21 AM To: Anderson, Kelly Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without depe

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-15 Thread Bill Arnette
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anderson, Kelly Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:04 PM To: Bill Arnette; nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies Bill

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-15 Thread Anderson, Kelly
Bill, Wouldn't your approach invoke: even if libZ were up to date? Is this a bad thing? It seems so from an efficiency standpoint. In comparison to make, it seems to me that most NAnt scripts I've seen seem to do more work than the makefile even though it is expressed much mo

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-14 Thread Bill Arnette
-Original Message- From: Owen Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:25 PM To: Arnette, Bill Cc: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies On 14/09/05, Arnette, Bill <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-14 Thread Owen Rogers
On 14/09/05, Arnette, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When writing a build file that does everything from checking out the > source to creating the installation package, it would be nice if you > could run a target from the command line without running the > dependencies. Is this possible now?

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-14 Thread Gary Feldman
Bill Arnette wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edmund Schweppe Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:54 PM Arnette, Bill wrote: When writing a build file that does everything from checking out the source to creating the installation package, it would be nice if you could run a

RE: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-14 Thread Bill Arnette
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edmund Schweppe Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:54 PM To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies Arnette, Bill wrote: > W

Re: [Nant-users] Build target from command line without dependencies

2005-09-14 Thread Edmund Schweppe
Arnette, Bill wrote: When writing a build file that does everything from checking out the source to creating the installation package, it would be nice if you could run a target from the command line without running the dependencies. Is this possible now? If you really need this ability - w