[MonoDevelop] SpecFlow Add-in

[Lluis Sanchez Gual]

El dc 10 de 02 de 2010 a les 07:27 -0800, en/na Dale Ragan va escriure:
> 
> 
> Dale Ragan wrote:
> > 
> > SpecFlow[1] aims at bridging the communication gap between domain experts
> > and developers by binding business readable behavior specifications to the
> > underlying implementation.  if you're familiar with Cucumber[2], it
> > basically brings the functionality to .NET.
> > 
> > Right now all they have is Visual Studio integration and I would like to
> > see MonoDevelop get support also.  I am pretty new to MonoDevelop after
> > using Visual Studio for the last 7 to 8 years and I have been wanting to
> > familiarize myself with the add-in system.  I figured this might be a good
> > project to begin that journey.  I am not sure how feasible this is going
> > to be yet, but I have already forked the project on Github[3] to begin the
> > process.
> > 
> > Also is there any interest from the community in helping?  I would hate to
> > have to go at this alone.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > [1]: http://specflow.org/home.aspx
> > [2]: http://cukes.info/
> > [3]: http://github.com/sinesignal/SpecFlow
> > 
> 
> Well, I had some time last night to clone my fork of SpecFlow and go through
> the source code.  After my initial inspection, I think there may be some
> problems building some of the projects due to the dependency of MSBuild. 
> After trying to compile my suspicion was correct.
> 
> I know Mono has xBuild, but does xBuild also have an API like
> Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine or will I need to use an API that MonoDevelop
> exposes to facilitate manipulating the project by adding files and etc.? 
> Thanks for any information that will lead me down the right path to port
> some of the SpecFlow code.

Mono implements the Microsoft.Build.* assemblies, although some features
may not be complete. If you report a bug to Mono, we'll take a look at
it.

Lluis.