pNAnt is a fork of NAnt and NAntContrib that provides parallelization support and fixes some of the more serious shortcomings of NAnt. You can find the original NAnt project here:
and the source here:
The 'p' is silent as in 'pneumatic'. Or you can just call it 'pea-nant'.
The primary focus of pNAnt is to add the ability to run multiple build targets in parallel. To this end, several tasks and attributes were added which allow fine-grained control over which targets can be run in parallel and which must be run sequentially.
The following tasks have been added:
<parallel/>: Specifies targets to run in parallel<sequence/>: Specifies targets to tun in sequence<mutex/>: Wraps a block of tasks in a mutual-exclusion lock
No longer are all properties globally scoped. Properties can now have one of three scopes:
global: Visible to all targets, projects, and threadsthread: Visible to all targets and projects in the current thread and child threads.target: Visible only to the target in which it is declared.
See the Property Scope page for more information.
See Logging Parallel Activities for information on how logging works when dealing with multiple threads.
pNAnt now requires .NET Framework 4.6. I am sorry.
Any existing NAnt build files will work perfectly fine with pNAnt.
Plugins that were written for NAnt might work without recompilation, however it is unlikely. Changes were made to the NAnt API that will require any custom tasks or functions to be modified slightly. No (non-deprecated) functionality was removed but method signatures were changed.
Copyright (C) 2016 Nathan Daniels
Original NAnt Copyright (C) 2001-2012 Gerry Shaw
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