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NAnt vs MSBuild funnies

20-Mar-08

All the software is equally bad…
Well, I know some pieces of software that are good, but I won’t mention them today.
One of our msbuild vs nant choice criteria isĀ  a product versioning support.
Sad or funny things are:

both don’t include sane tool out of box;
both need installing NAntContrib or MSBuild Community Tasks;
even then both can’t sanely [...]

Choosing MSBuild/TeamBuild vs NAnt

11-Mar-08

We’re choosing a build tool for VS 2008 project.
I’m not expert in any, only had put together a couple of NAnt scripts. So I give no objective technical information in this post, just impressions.

First discussion of this choice, back in 2005, is almost strictly in favor of NAnt. Though, read it to know about MSBuild [...]