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  15         <h1><span class="N">N</span><span class="Ant">Ant</span> Change Log</h1>
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  17         <h3>0.6.0 September 18, 2001</h3>
  18         <ul>
  19                 <li>report build file xml errors in a useful way</li>
  20                 <li>report error location when tasks are missing required attributes</li>
  21                 <li>copy task updated - thanks to Ian MacLean</li>
  22                 <li>**/*.cs type pattern matching now available in file sets via DirectoryScanner class</li>
  23                 <li>Ian MacLean added as a project developer</li>
  24                 <li>added all the environment variables to properites, ie, &lt;echo message="path=${nant.env.PATH}"/&gt;</li>
  25                 <li>move task updated - thanks to Ian MacLean</li>
  26                 <li>sleep task added - thanks to Ian MacLean</li>
  27                 <li>DirectoryScanner and FileSet's scan for files AND directories now</li>
  28                 <li>FileSet's cache scan results, use Scan() to rescan</li>
  29                 <li>FileSet's auto initialize to their containing Task, this helps clean up the code</li>
  30                 <li>copy task can now copy full directory trees</li>
  31                 <li>added verbose attribute to copy task, default off, message gives number of files processed</li>
  32                 <li>fixed bug with any ExternalBase tasks hanging - thanks to Sergey Chaban for reporting</li>
  33                 <li>include task added</li>
  34                 <li>call task added</li>
  35                 <li>-verbose command line option added</li>
  36                 <li>build file can now build complete distribution, try 'nant dist'</li>
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  39         <h3>0.5.0 August 22, 2001</h3>
  40         <ul>
  41                 <li>complete overhaul of the web site and doc folder (all html files)</li>
  42                 <li>made src a parent folder to be able to hold multiple assemblies in anticipation of the NAnt.Tests.dll assembly</li>
  43                 <li>licensed changed to GNU General Public License</li>
  44                 <li>source code placed under CVS</li>
  45                 <li>tasks can now have attributes in base classes, see CompilerBase as an example - thanks to Mike Krueger</li>
  46                 <li>coding conventions posted on SourceForge in the document manager</li>
  47                 <li>task manager in SourceForge is now being used to track currently active tasks</li>
  48                 <li>namespace changed to SourceForge.NAnt</li>
  49                 <li>added basic command line parsing</li>
  50                 <li>added version resource</li>
  51                 <li>support for multiple build targets (try 'nant clean test')</li>
  52                 <li>BuildException added to report text position in the build file where errors occur - thanks to Ian MacLean</li>
  53                 <li>style task (xslt processing) added - thanks to Serge</li>
  54                 <li>executable is now signed with the NAnt.key</li>
  55                 <li>converted all public/protected fields to properties</li>
  56                 <li>added support for user define properties</li>
  57                 <li>added -set option (try 'nant -set:debug=true clean build')</li>
  58                 <li>changed verions number to 0.5 to reflect the number of changes in the code base</li>
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  61         <h3>0.1.5 July 22, 2001</h3>
  62         <ul>
  63                 <li>only compiles program if source file last write time > output last write time</li>
  64                 <li>refactored compiler code into common CompilerBase class</li>
  65                 <li>refactored compiler and exec task into common ExternalProgramBase class</li>
  66                 <li>added &lt;arg value="/win32res:filename"/&gt; element to all external program tasks</li>
  67                 <li>added Int32ValidatorAttribute and BooleanValidatorAttribute classes to perform error checking on task attributes after macro expansion but before task execution.  Search for BooleanValidator or Int32Validator in Tasks for examples.</li>
  68                 <li>changed Task attribute names to TaskAttributeAttribute and FileSetAttribute</li>
  69                 <li>removed default value for task attributes (set with initial value)</li>
  70                 <li>changes to Project class on how to initialize a project and run it</li>
  71                 <li>right aligned task prefixes to clean up output</li>
  72                 <li>added or enhanced these tasks
  73                         <ul>
  74                                 <li>vbc, jsc, csc</li>
  75                                 <li>move</li>
  76                                 <li>nant</li>
  77                                 <li>taskdef</li>
  78                                 <li>tstamp</li>
  79                                 <li>exec (failonerror attribute)</li>
  80                         </ul>
  81                 </li>
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  84         <h3>0.1.4 July 19, 2001</h3>
  85         <ul>
  86                 <li>added or enhanced these tasks
  87                         <ul>
  88                                 <li>echo</li>
  89                                 <li>fail</li>
  90                                 <li>property</li>
  91                                 <li>copy (respects basedir)</li>
  92                                 <li>delete (respects basedir)</li>
  93                                 <li>mkdir (respects basedir)</li>
  94                                 <li>exec</li>
  95                         </ul>
  96                 </li>
  97         </ul>
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  99         <h3>0.1.3 July 18, 2001</h3>
 100         <ul>
 101                 <li>dependices working via depends attribute on targets</li>
 102                 <li>changed name from NBuild to NAnt</li>
 103                 <li>using the name "Parameter" to refer to the xml attributes in tasks because it was conflicting badly with .NET Attributes</li>
 104                 <li>added FileSetParameterAttribute so that fileset parameters would autoinit</li>
 105                 <li>renamed TaskAttributeAttribute to StringParameterAttribute</li>
 106                 <li>broke into seperate source files (one per class)</li>
 107                 <li>changed default build file from Project.xml to the first file with a .build extension</li>
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 110         <h3>0.1.2 July 16, 2001</h3>
 111         <ul>
 112                 <li>basic functionality to have NAnt build itself (csc task)</li>
 113         </ul>
 114
 115         <h3>0.1.1 July 5, 2001</h3>
 116         <ul>
 117                 <li>initial test version</li>
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