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1Prebuild is an XML-driven pre-build tool allowing developers to easily generate project or make files for major IDE's and .NET development tools including: Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2002, SharpDevelop, MonoDevelop, and NAnt.
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3Documentation and downloads are available at http://dnpb.sourceforge.net.
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5Prebuild is licensed under the BSD license.
6
7[ XXXXXXX XX, XXX - 1.3.2 ]
8 + Added Keyfile signing to NAnt target and VS2005 target
9 + Updated XSD file to 1.7
10 + Boo and VisualBasic Language support in VS2005 target
11 + Added basic Autotools target. It creates a non-recursive Autotools system.
12 ! Multiple files can be excluded from the Match node
13 ! VS2005 now handles .resx files correctly.
14 ! NAnt and Autotools now handle defines
15 ! NAnt and Autotools now handle resources
16 + Conditional XML variables can be passed through the command line.
17 + Added /install and /remove command line flags to install and remove assemblies from the GAC
18 + Many fixes to VS2005 target
19
20[ July 21, 2006 - 1.3.1 ]
21 ! VS2005 fixes from Rob Loach
22 ! NAnt fixes from Rob Loach and David Hudson
23 ! XML doc fixes from Rob Loach
24 + Added SharpDevelop2 target (really just uses VS2005 target)
25 ! Fixed bug with BuildEvents in Monodevelop target
26 + Passing /yes will default to answering yes to any warnings
27
28[ February 28, 2006 - 1.3 ]
29 + Added MonoDevelop target.
30 + Added NAnt target.
31 + Lots of fixes to all targets.
32 * Cleaned up the code using FXCop.
33 * Updated schema to 1.6 to fix a typo and add a new parameter.
34 * jendave is now the maintainer of the project. RobLoach has been added as a developer.
35 * Removed references to 'dnpb'.
36 + Added rudimentary support for pre- and post- build scripts
37 * Updated examples.
38
39[ August 5, 2004 - 1.2 ]
40 + Added Visual Studio Express (vs2005express) target contributed by Borrillis and modified for use with different languages
41 + Added the allowedgroups command line option followed by a pipe-delimited list of project group filter flags (eg. Group1|Group2) allow optional filtering of all projects that dont have at least one of these flags
42 + Added the filterGroups XML attribute to the project node and updated the scheme to v1.5 for this addition, it is used to specified the delimited list of filter groups to which a project belongs
43 * Modified the removedir command line option to allow for a pipe-delimited list of directory names
44 ! Modified the resource loading code to search for resourced without the prepended namespace (as Visual Studio .NET does it) to allow for it to be compiled with SharpDevelop as well
45 + Added the GenerateXmlDocFile boolean option to the Options XML element
46 * Changed the behavior of the XmlDocFile option so that if not specified it uses the assemblyName (without file extension) + .xml for the file name instead of just not generating the file since the new GenerateXmlDocFile takes care of this
47
48[ January 3, 2004 - 1.1 ]
49 ! Replaced regex use for more efficient manual parsing to allow use on non-windows platforms with Mono which has Regex problems
50 + Added the checkOsVars attribute to the root element for enabling interpolation for Enviroment variables in the form ${var}, otherwise no checking is performed for efficiency-sake
51 * Make the version attribute on the root element optional as it isn't used and not needed since the schema url contains the version
52
53[ December 30, 2004 - 1.1 ]
54 ! Applied Leed's fix for SharpDevelop references
55 + Rewrote much of the processing for better validation and without the use of a temp file
56 + Added support for configurations at the project level which are named All. They now apply changes to all Solution level defined configs
57 * Changed all spaces into tabs
58 + Added support for the None build action
59 * Replaced all sequence's in the XML schema for all's because the order doesn't matter since the xml file is loaded into an XmlDocument
60
61[ December 25, 2004 - 1.0 ]
62 + Added the /removedir option for cleaning directories like obj before file releases
63 + Changed WriteTempXml() and the new DeleteTempXml() methods to be compiled only in DEBUG builds
64 * Made path optional for Match elements (defaults to current directory) and updates schema for it
65 ! Fixed XML example in the readme.txt
66 + Added example xml files to docs directory
67 * Updated license.txt to add Dan Moorehead and update copyright years
68 + Updated prebuild.xml to take advantage of the default path attribute for match elements
69 + Updated Clean to delete the obj directories
70
71[ December 25, 2004 - 0.13 ]
72 + Added dnpb.exe so that it can be used to generate the project files
73 + Added dnpb.ico
74 * Added parameterless Write statement to Log for writing a single line
75 * Changed scehema to version 1.3 for support of icon attribute
76 * Added support for All configuration name under a Project node signifying common settings for all configurations
77 ! Fixed the SupressWarnings by adding the corresponding field to OptionsNode
78 * Wrote documentation in docs/readme.txt
79 * Added Dan Moorehead to copyrights and extended date from 2004 to 2004-2005
80 * Updated prebuild.xml
81 * Optimized Log class
82 * Updated OutputUsage()
83 * /clean targets all by default
84 * No log file is used by default, /log without value specified uses default file name
85 + Added support for the /pause which pauses the utility after execution to observe output
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87
88[ September 27, 2004 - 0.12.2a ]
89 ! Fixed a nasty bug when trying to delete our temp file for pre-processing.
90
91[ September 15, 2004 - 0.12.2 ]
92 + Expanded platform identification, thanks to the NAnt guys for shedding some
93 light on how to properly check for UNIX platforms! Thanks guys!
94 * POSIX OS identifier changed to UNIX. Valid OS names are now "Win32", "UNIX",
95 and "Unknown".
96 ! Fixed SharpDevelop target to properly use the 'rootNamespace' attribute of
97 the Project tag.
98 + New command-line switch, /ppo, forces DNPB to pre-process the file and write
99 the pre-processed file. This allows you to test/debug your pre-processor
100 macros. No other processing will be done. You can specify a target file as
101 a paramter for the /ppo switch, or DNPB will write the file 'preprocessed.xml'
102 if you do not specify a file.
103 + The Match tag now has a 'buildAction' attribute which functions exactly like
104 the attribute of the same name for the File tag.
105
106[ August 5, 2004 - 0.12.1 ]
107 + Added environment variable expansion for all values. Environment variables
108 should be listed in the form ${VAR}.
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110[ July 30, 2004 - 0.12.0 ]
111 + Added preprocessing via XML processing information tags. Available tags
112 are: <?if <exp> ?>, <?elseif <exp> ?>, <?else ?> and <?endif ?>. The
113 current expression parser is very basic, but will be replaced with a more
114 capable parser over time. Current operators available are: =, !=, <, >,
115 <=, >=. Current test variables available: OS, RuntimeVersion, RuntimeMajor,
116 RuntimeMinor, RuntimeRevision.
117
118[ July 27, 2004 - 0.11.4 ]
119 + Added 'useRegex' attribute to the Match tag. Matches can now use regular
120 expressions to match filenames.
121 + Added the 'assemblyName' attribute to the Project tag. Projects can now
122 set their output assembly name.
123 ! Fixed several bugs in the way that Project tags inheirt their parent
124 Solutions configuration options. This operation should now work fully as
125 intended.
126 ! Due to some wierdness, Project Guid's are now stored as part of the Project
127 node and created at parse time.
128
129[ May 11, 2004 - 0.11.3 ]
130 ! Fixed a bug where I was writing the wrong property name for a projects root
131 namespace.
132 ! Removed a DEBUG statement I had left in the code in 0.11.2.
133 ! Fixed a bug in the VS2002 writer which caused the version variables to not
134 be overriden correctly.
135 + Added the rootNamespace property to the <Project> element, allowing you to
136 specify the root namespace.
137 * /target and /clean are now mutually exclusive command line switches, and
138 they both now take the all option. In the case of /target all, all build
139 file for all targets will be created. In the case of /clean all, the user
140 will be prompted to make sure they want to do it, and if so, will clean
141 all build files for all targets.
142
143[ April 22, 2004 - 0.11.2 ]
144 ! Fixed a bug with the /file command-line operator. Was using the unresolved
145 file path rather then the resolved one, was making the attempt to open the
146 dnpb file fail.
147 ! Fixed a bug in the schema that required at least 1 solution and 1 reference
148 path. We can do just fine with 0 of either of these. Some files may be all
149 <Process> statements and not have any <Solution> tags.
150 ! Fixed a bug that caused the project references not to be written with the
151 SharpDevelop target.
152 * Changed the schema to version 1.2, allowing for Configuration nodes to exist
153 under project nodes. The inheritance of values is hierarchical. Meaning, if
154 you define a configuration named Debug at the Soltion level, and one by the
155 same name at the Project level, the one at the Project level will first
156 inherit the options of the Solution level configuration, then set it's own
157 options. If you define a configuration at the Project level and it does not
158 exist at the Solution level, it will be created at the Solution level.
159 * Project references should now work correctly across the board. Note that due
160 to a restriction in Visual Studio, you can only reference projects in the same
161 solution.
162
163[ April 21, 2004 - 0.11.1 ]
164 ! Fixed a problem with resolving paths in various targets. Was not properly
165 setting the CWD.
166 * Schema updated to 1.1, moving the ReferencePath element from the Options
167 element to the Project element. This makes more logical sense, given that
168 reference paths are resolved relative to the project path. Any prebuild.xml
169 file referecning verison 1.0 will fail! Please update to the 1.1 schema.
170
171[ April 19, 2004 - 0.11.0 ]
172 * Added several attributes across the code to make FxCop happy
173 ! Fixed bugs in reference paths being written in the VS targets.
174 ! Fixed a bug in ProjectNode which was doing two CWDStack.Push() calls instead of
175 a Push/Pop pair. Was wreaking havoc with <Process> tags.
176 ! Fixed some bugs in the path tracking, both the Project and Solution nodes now
177 have a FullPath property, which is the full path to the file resolved at load
178 time. This should fix all path relativity problems.
179 + Added new /clean switch, allowing the target to clean up any files it generated.
180 in accordance, the ITarget interface has been updated to support a new Clean()
181 method.
182 + Completed addition of the <Process> tag, to allow the referencing of external
183 prebuild.xml files.
184 + Added the runtime attribute to the Project element. This allows the developer
185 to specify which runtime a project should target (Mono or Microsoft). This is
186 of course ignored in certain targets like the Visual Studio targets.
187 + Added the SharpDevelop target.
188
189[ April 13, 2004 - 0.10.1a ]
190 + Added the buildAction attribute to the File node. This is needed for dnpb
191 to even be able to bootstrap itself (dnpb-1.0.xsd must be an embedded resource)
192
193[ April 13, 2004 - 0.10.1 ]
194 * First Release
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196[ Key ]
197* = Change or information
198+ = Addition
199! = Bug Fix
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