From ant-user-return-27312-qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-user=jakarta.apache.org@jakarta.apache.org Mon Dec 02 20:10:20 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-ant-user-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 54746 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2002 20:10:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Dec 2002 20:10:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 24174 invoked by uid 97); 2 Dec 2002 20:11:18 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 24154 invoked by uid 97); 2 Dec 2002 20:11:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ant-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Ant Users List" Reply-To: "Ant Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list ant-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 24141 invoked by uid 98); 2 Dec 2002 20:11:17 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) Message-ID: <001901c29a3d$ffb8aa10$2b13fd0f@zermatt> From: "Steve Loughran" To: "Ant Users List" , References: Subject: Re: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5] Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:03:58 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Stirling" To: "Ant Users List" Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 15:32 Subject: RE: Ant Perversions [was RE: Properties are causing problem in 1.5] > > The .NET tasks aren't necessarily interactive, or controlling > > GUIs or anything else. > > This has puzzled me for a while, so I might as well ask -- why if you are > developing for .NET, which isn't cross-platform, would you use a Java tool > to do your builds? Does .NET really not provide a quality set of build and > automation tools? Or are they too expensive to buy? I don't get this one > at all, but there must be a reason if .NET tasks made it into the optional > task set. yeah, I put them there. 1. NET ships with NMAKE, which is not a real make. 2. There is now NANT, but it is emerging 3. But the way I use the .net tasks is to do interop testing of web services; the WSDL, turn the WSDL to C# stubs, code the test classes, run them. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: