Is NAnt in the dead pool?

Question

I know NAnt sees frequent use (well, I always use it for my CI builds) but there has been no new official release since December 2007. Is the project receiving active development any more or is it dead-pooled? It worries me that if I carry on using it, and it stops tracking the latest version of .NET, I'll eventually be left with a massive job when it comes to upgrading systems to a version of the framework that it can't build.

Has everyone else gone over to some other tool like MSBuild these days?

Cornwell

Answer 1

See the official blog - NAnt’s not dead, it was just resting

https://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/nant/2010/04/05/nants-not-dead-it-was-just-resting/

Subtangent

This URL has meanwhile become unreachable (probably as a part of SourceForge's hosted apps retirement). – Mcminn

(web archive) web.archive.org/web/20100522194307/http://sourceforge.net/apps/… – Subtangent

Thanks, but the fact that the posting can only be found on web.archive.org unfortunately doesn't speak for the current alive-status of the project. – Mcminn

Answer 2

It seems as if development will be more active in the near future. This is from a message from the developers mailing list from 05 Mar 2010:

since we are in an early stage of getting drive on nant again, I want to ask if we could moving away from CVS.

My first proposal is to switch to subversion.

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I'm also using NAnt for quite some time, and while I was a little bit concerned about the project being dead, so far NAnt did its job very well.

Update: NAnt 0.90 Beta 1 was released on April 17, 2010

Penalty

NAnt 0.90 (Final) has been released May 8, 2010 – Subtangent