[Mono-dev] Why not NAnt?

[Atsushi Eno]

Hi,

>> No one practically uses NAnt on cygwin (it is obvious as NAnt 
>> never supports cygwin-considered buid/installation system and 
>> no one complained about that).
>>
>> Considering that there are many many additional things that 
>> depends on make like standalone tests, there is no better 
>> development environment than cygwin on Windows.
>>
>> Having build depencency just for dogfooding isn't a good idea.
>> Every time the build got broken somehow, it will mess every 
>> hackers until the problem goes away. Have you joined the 
>> development and tasted that pain?
> 
> Are you making this statement with regard to building Mono or 
> applications that run on Mono?

For my first paragraph, the second, and the first for everything else.

> If it's the first, I agree. For applications, it seems as if
> standardizing on NAnt is a valid choice to be made by the 
> application developers and might even be a preferred choice
> since it allows one build to work on all platforms.

Under Mono on windows it is unlikely to work fine with
installation (installing assemblies to mono GAC) at least from
what I know of. Of course I might be missing something, especially
the latest cvs version might work (anyways Gert would help you).

Atsushi Eno