[Mono-dev] gendarme: nant build files

[Sebastien Pouliot]

Hey,

It's funny how many build system suggestions you can get. A few more
days and we will have more (possible) build system than rules for
gendarme ;-)

However it's a little sad when I compare this number with the offers to
maintaining (versus just naming a tool, or dropping a patch) the new
build system(s) :-(

Now I can't image what the email would have looked like if I had said
that I wasn't open to a third *contributor-maintained* build
system... ;-)

Sebastien

p.s. Nothing personal Curtis, I'm just realigning the thread ;-)

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 01:02 -0700, Curtis Wensley wrote:
> Why not use .net prebuild?
> 
> It can generate nant, vs2003, vs2005, monodevelop, and sharpdevelop 
> projects/solutions from a single xml definition.  This cuts down maintenance 
> of project files quite tremendously.  It is here:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnpb/
> 
> This can be used during tarball creation or deployment to generate all the 
> necessary project files automatically.
> 
> Cheers!
> Curtis.
> 
> On Monday 28 August 2006 14:39, Sebastien Pouliot wrote:
> Hello Christian,
> 
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 23:13 +0200, Christian Birkl wrote:
> > Since i'm a windows user (I don't believe I've said this loud) it is
> > really hard for me to run the Makefile based build.
> 
> Using the Makefile should work using cygwin (and I can't believe I'm
> suggesting cygwin to someone ;-)
> 
> > Also MonoDevelop is just available for *nis (last time i checked) so
> > no chance for us windows developers to build gendarme out of the box.
> >
> > I get your point with the outdating - but currently as a windows
> > developer you just get the source and need to manually create either
> > VS projects or nant build files. By providing at least nant build
> > files one may easier begin patching gendarme than without.
> 
> I understand this issue, which is why I'm open to a third build system.
> But, like I said, I don't have any NAnt knowledge myself so someone else
> needs to step up for it ;-)
> 
> Why ? because once this is in SVN/tarballs people will expect it to be
> maintained (even if I write "use at your own risk" in the README).
> 
> > Since I'm not that involved in other projects - how do other handle
> > this issue with "build files"?
> 
> I suspect they each build their own project file (e.g. in VS.NET) and
> yes this is clearly inefficient.
> 
> Now one of my computers is a WinXP box with VS.NET 2005, so I may take
> the time to create a VS.NET solution in the future as, somehow, it make
> sense "test-wise" and commit it into SVN (if there is demand for it).
> 
> But I'm still open to a contributor-supported NAnt build ;-)
> 
> > Christian
> >
> >
> > 2006/8/28, Sebastien Pouliot <sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com>:
> >         Hello Christian,
> >
> >         On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:47 +0200, Christian Birkl wrote:
> >         > Hello all,
> >         >
> >         > attached a NAnt build file for build and running gendarme.
> >
> >         Two things
> >
> >         > bug me currently which should be corrected by someone who
> >
> >         has more
> >
> >         > experiences with nant build files:
> >
> >         We already have 2 build systems (Makefile and MonoDevelop) for
> >         Gendarme.
> >         I don't mind adding a third one, but I don't want to maintain
> >         it ;-)
> >
> >         Will you maintain it ? (*)
> >
> >         (*) which also means that it will get deleted if it gets
> >         outdated and
> >         not updated for a while (i.e. after I get angry few emails
> >         about it ;-)
> >
> >         >  - Mono.Cecil location must be specified as property (a
> >
> >         dynamic lookup
> >
> >         > in gac/pkg-config would be nice)
> >         >  - same with nunit.framework if you want to run the unit
> >
> >         tests.
> >
> >         I don't know much about NAnt myself. Maybe Gert could help you
> >         with this ?
> >
> >         Thanks
> >
> >         p.s. let fix those issues before committing the build file (as
> >         I
> >         *really* want running the unit tests to be as easy as
> >         possible).
> >         --
> >         Sebastien Pouliot  <sebastien at ximian.com>
> >         Blog: http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/
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