http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660I have a little side project I just started up that needs some build automation so I am looking into using BooBS. Grabbed the source from the google code site. Try 1: Try to load the BooBS solution in VS.Net - failed. .booproj could not be found Try 2: Try letting boobs build itself. C:\projects\boobs>.\bin\boobs Boo Build System - version 0.2 Running buildfile: C:\projects\boobs\boobsfile default: build: init build dir: build boobs: build engine: The system cannot find the file specified Try 3: Download SharpDevelop IDE to build BooBS. - worked However, BooBS still could not build itself. The sample works with BooBS that I built with SharpDevelop. Now if I only knew Boo I could write code for tasks. http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment9http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment9Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:17:33 GMTBake would be great because of the rake similarity, but i think that Bake already exists. And i agree that this name can be a problem, if the uses catch. Maybe BooBuild !! http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment8http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment8Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:46:07 GMTAvish, absolutely! http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment7http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment7Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:13:05 GMTIn all seriousness, "BooBS" will make it difficult for enterprises to stomach. A less controversial name would help. Maybe "BooBuild", though the earlier recommendation, "Bake" is even better (reminiscent of Ruby's "rake"). http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment6http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment6Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:09:27 GMTI suggested earlier and elsewhere that this project merges with BooDoo. If that happens, I think BooDoo can be used as the name. More practically, though, the current state of the DSL is a leaky abstraction: I don't care that BooBS uses strings for task names and string lists for dependencies; I want to write a pure DSL declaration, like this: task build (clean): MsBuild "MyApp.sln" It shouldn't be too hard to make BooBS use ReferenceExpressions for tasks, rather than strings. This would also automagically gain you the power of intellisensing task names. http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment5http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment5Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:50:00 GMTWhenever talking about it to higher level people, just refer to it as the Boo Build System. No harm done :-) http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment4http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment4Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:07:43 GMTCan I float the idea of calling it Bake (Boo - make). We could switch from quips about mammary glands to getting the munchies and 4:20 references. http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment3http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment3Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:39:34 GMTAdam, No argument about that :-) That is not my name, though. Call it BBUS, if it sounds better. http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment2http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment2Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:05:05 GMTI hate to be "that guy", but heck, with a name like that I can't really try to sell it as a replacement (for NAnt.) http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment1http://ayende.com/2821/boobs-sample#comment1Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:56:43 GMT