[Mono-dev] Some MSBuild porting progress

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello Lluis,

I think once we are happy with msbuild, that we should build msbuild as
part of the standard Mono build process and ship the resulting libraries
and script.

My only concern is whether the public API surface that msbuild has is able
to replace the assemblies that we currently install on the GAC.   If it
does, then we can get rid of our implementation, if not, we might have to
keep both around until we get everyone out of the xbuild implementation.

Miguel

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Lluis Sanchez <lluis at xamarin.com> wrote:

> There is a new xplat branch in the msbuild repo with many fixes to make it
> work on Mono. I’ve been doing additional fixes and I could make it work to
> build the MonoDevelop solution (some Exec tasks are failing though, due to
> missing path conversions). I posted my fixes as PRs to the main repo, and I
> keep a branch with all of them in my own repo (
> https://github.com/slluis/msbuild/tree/fix-xplat).
>
> What’s the plan for integrating it into Mono?
>
> El 19/03/2015, a les 20:40, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com> va
> escriure:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I used the work from Alex to get started, and did some work on my own.
>
> I posted all the patches to github.com/mono/msbuild
>
> When using it to bootstrap building itself, it is not breaking at invoking
> NuGet.
>
> I am out of the office until next week, so I think this is as far I will
> get.
>
> Miguel
>
>
>
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