NAnt2
NAnt2 is a free .NET build tool, updated and enhanced from original NAnt project https://github.com/nant/nant. Easy to use even by non-programmers to automate their daily tasks. (by savornicesei)
Psake
A build automation tool written in PowerShell (by psake)
| NAnt2 | Psake | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | |
| 8 | 1,536 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 6.9 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | over 1 year ago | |
| C# | PowerShell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
NAnt2
Posts with mentions or reviews of NAnt2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-08.
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NAnt2 (NAnt descendant) development status
I've been working on NAnt2 - a fork of the awesome NAnt project. Since it might look both projects have stalled, it's not true for NAnt2 - ideas and things to do still pop up thus there are 101 issues currently on its board, besides bringing it to year 2021.
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What build tool(s) do people use for their applications?
NAnt is a capable system (in some ways better than MSBuild) and it's still sort of alive in the form of NAnt2 but yes, very old school.
Psake
Posts with mentions or reviews of Psake.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-08.
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Achieving single command Infrastructure deployment using PowerShell DSC.
You may use other tools too: psake, make, cake, fake or any other *ake you are familiar with. I look at them as a tools that make build tasks behind simple commands and help me answer: How did I run that code again?
- How do you guys make sense of a complex project on GitHub?
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How do you specify Debug or Release when calling Invoke-psake?
I use the psake PowerShell module to "build" my PowerShell modules. My psakefile.ps1 contains the logic needed to update the manifest with an incremented version, any new function/cmdlet names, and so on. Then it copies everything from .\src\ to .\output\modulename\version. All I do is call Invoke-psake build or Invoke-psake test, and this works great as-is for "pure powershell modules".
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What build tool(s) do people use for their applications?
I've used psake (powershell+make) https://github.com/psake/psake - the main thing that attracted me to this was that it wasn't an XML based system (Nant/MSbuild), and it handled task prerequisites very nicely. While some devs find powershell a bit of a pain to learn, they generally become useful very quickly, and I think it's useful to be able to do some level of powershelling anyway.
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pake: Just another Make but with Powershell
GitHub - psake/psake: A build automation tool written in PowerShell
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NAnt2 and Psake you can also consider the following projects:
FAKE - FAKE - F# Make
Cake - :cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET
Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell
dotnet-affected - .NET tool for determining which projects are affected by a set of changes. Useful for large projects or monorepos.
MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
CS Make - Sake Build
NUKE/common
Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core