NAnt
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I finally downloaded the .NET SDK to do some experimentation with it. Unfortunately an upgrade to Visual Studio.NET is out of the question at the moment, so I decided to look for a nicer way to build my experiments than .bats or makefiles. I'd heard a bit about ANT, a java based build tool, but I happened to spot another one... based on ANT... NANT. A .NET version of the ANT tool. After getting it from http://nant.sourceforge.net I've had a bit of a play. Very nice! The build files are in XML, and seem a bit more straight forward than the old makefiles. They also claim that certain failures with makefiles are resolved by ANT/NANT. I've still got a lot of experimentation to go with it, but it looks very positive at the moment. Anyway, thought I'd share this with you guys in case you hadn't heard of it before. Cheers.
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I finally downloaded the .NET SDK to do some experimentation with it. Unfortunately an upgrade to Visual Studio.NET is out of the question at the moment, so I decided to look for a nicer way to build my experiments than .bats or makefiles. I'd heard a bit about ANT, a java based build tool, but I happened to spot another one... based on ANT... NANT. A .NET version of the ANT tool. After getting it from http://nant.sourceforge.net I've had a bit of a play. Very nice! The build files are in XML, and seem a bit more straight forward than the old makefiles. They also claim that certain failures with makefiles are resolved by ANT/NANT. I've still got a lot of experimentation to go with it, but it looks very positive at the moment. Anyway, thought I'd share this with you guys in case you hadn't heard of it before. Cheers.