Is there any ongoing effort to produce a .NET/NAnt version of Ivy? (I suppose this would be "NIvy".) I find myself wondering if this can be easily done by using IKVM to convert the Ivy bytecode to IL along with NAnt based clones of the Ivy Ant tasks. Any guidance on the most practical/expedient approach? Any rough estimation of effort? I'm guessing this is only a week or two of work if IKVM works smoothly, but I don't really know. Is there any interest by Ant committers to adopt such a product if I took the time to author it? If so, any guidance on how to ensure it would be adopted? I assume some amount of simple automated integration/smoke tests would need to be created. Thanks for your time and effort spent responding to this post. References: IKM site: http://www.ikvm.net/
P.S.: I am considering either a Nant/msbuild/Ivy or an NMaven based build solution for a rather large componetized C# build. Unfortunately, both solutions looks like they will involve a great deal of bloodletting. Is there another/better choice for obtaining proper dependency and build artifact management of C# code? Without such features I'm not sure how to maintain manageablity of a large build process.
