Re: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

now, they dont have to care what I say, but we do have the option of pulling all .NET support from ant1.6...we will just have to see if that matters to them. It'll be an interesting test of conflict of the tactical 'get .net developers today' over the strategic 'own the developers forever'. I

Re: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Wed, 05 Nov 2003, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stefan Bodewig wrote: Oh, Latin is my third language (and I never had the opportunity to tell girls I was interested in what they had to say in Latin 8-). I believe there are still some parts of switzerland and a

Re: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bodewig wrote: >> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan. I am disappointed. Well, I knew that DD would read my mail and simply waited for him to wake up. I didn't expect you to do such a gre

RE: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

> > Just for fun, I let Google translate it. > > I didn't dare 8-) > > I once translated my Blog's main page to German via Google and didn't > understand it. Well, that could mean that nobody except myself > understands what I suppose to be English then either. > > Stefan When I started with

Re: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Kenneth Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for fun, I let Google translate it. I didn't dare 8-) I once translated my Blog's main page to German via Google and didn't understand it. Well, that could mean that nobody except myself understands what I suppose to be English

RE: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

Just for fun, I let Google translate it. It isn't great prose, but it's more understandable than I expected. See below. -Original Message- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:06 PM To: Ant Developers List Subject: Re: Brent

RE: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I stumbled over it yesterday[1] - the snippet you post - here > > . > > > > As I don't speak french I've been unable to understand the context - I > > was planing to ask the author of

Re: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is the offending page from Brent's book. I stumbled over it yesterday[1] - the snippet you post - here . As I don't speak french I've been unable to u

Re: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the offending page from Brent's book. I stumbled over it yesterday[1] - the snippet you post - here . As I don't speak french I've been unable to understand the conte

RE: Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

> From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1. Ant does not provide built-in target dependency analysis -a > requirement for a scalable build system > > [This has no impact on build files, merely effort to write new tasks. We > do leave it to tasks, but they get to implement their own lo

Brent Rector on Msbuild vs Ant

Here is the offending page from Brent's book. I think it will be on the MSDN web site before long, as it is the chapter promised this month - http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/understanding/books/rector/default.aspx I have added my commentary. This is the last paragraph on chapter 2, just after