Should NAnt be In our Repository?

[Charlie Poole]

Hi All,

One theory is that the repository should have everything
you need to build. Another that it should have everything
except what it is reasonable to expect.

Based on the second theory and also on the fact that you
can build with VS as an alternative, we have not included
NAnt in the repository up to now.

OTOH, you have to have an 0.86 version of NAnt to build
and you have to have the WiX NAnt tasks in your NAnt
directoryC if you want to build the Windows installer.

We do incude WiX itself in the Tools, because it seems
less likely that people will have it.

I'm of two minds on this:
1. NAnt is so basic, that we don't have to include it
2. NAnt is so important, that we should include it

What do you all think?

Charlie





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[Olof Bjarnason]

Go for inclusion.

If size matters, strip all unnecessary .dlls/other things from the
NAnt needed to build.

Less configuration - less fuzz.

I'm doing this for my own projects on the net, for example my
Dogfight2008 game, where I include NUnit in the SVN archive just for
the maintainability.

I'm all for the idea that the only thing you should actually need, is
the compiler. All other tools are part of the build, process, and
should therefore be included.

One of the big advantages is that NUnit expands it's potential
developer base, because programmers are one lazy race.

my 2 cc

/Olof

Post by Charlie Poole
Hi All,
One theory is that the repository should have everything
you need to build. Another that it should have everything
except what it is reasonable to expect.
Based on the second theory and also on the fact that you
can build with VS as an alternative, we have not included
NAnt in the repository up to now.
OTOH, you have to have an 0.86 version of NAnt to build
and you have to have the WiX NAnt tasks in your NAnt
directoryC if you want to build the Windows installer.
We do incude WiX itself in the Tools, because it seems
less likely that people will have it.
1. NAnt is so basic, that we don't have to include it
2. NAnt is so important, that we should include it
What do you all think?
Charlie
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