NAnt Release Plan

Replace log class and BuildListener/Event support.

Add support for loading loggers/listeners from third party assemblies.

Add assembly references support to <resgen> task. For all but .NET 2.0, we need to implement this by copying the resgen tool, and all referenced assemblies to a temp directory, and launch resgen from there.

Use mechanism of <resgen> task for <license> task.

Add support for package references to the following tasks:

• <csc> (done)
• <vbc> (done)
• <resgen>?

Added version functions, and remove version functions from assembly namespace.

Depreciate the following built-in properties:

• nant.filename
• nant.version
• nant.location
• nant.project.name
• nant.project.basedir
• nant.project.buildfile
• nant.project.default
• nant.platform.name
• nant.platform.win32
• nant.platform.unix
• nant.settings.currentframework.description
• nant.settings.currentframework.frameworkdirectory
• nant.settings.currentframework.sdkdirectory
• nant.settings.currentframework.frameworkassemblydirectory
• nant.settings.currentframework.runtimeengine
• nant.tasks.*

Support better logging.

Support configuration to enable targeting specific versions of the .NET Framework and additions like the .NET Compact Framework.

Think about project event model.

Drop SourceForge from the namespace identifier.

Rename FileSet xml elements: includes => include, excludes = > exclude, name = > pattern.

Add schema generation and validation for tasks.

Add named filesets.

Add <cvs> tasks.

Generate docs for build types.

Make sure the examples included in the distribution build. Currently some examples fail.

Add support for linked resources to the compiler tasks and the <al> task.

Add support for multiple filesets to the <zip> task.

Move <aximp> task from NAntContrib to the NAnt.Win32Tasks assembly, so we can use it in the <solution> task.

Add support for registering an assembly for COM interop to the <solution> task. We could delegate this to NAntContrib's <regasm> task.

Add <choose> task, similar to XSLT's choose pattern.

Add <trycatch> task.

Have the <solution> task use TlbImpTask and AxImpTask instead of directly executing the corresponding commandline tools.

Modify CompilerBase and AssemblyLinkerTask to pass localized resources to al.exe using the response file instead of passing arguments directly on the commandline.

Move to an Apache or BSD-style license.

Add FilterChain support.

Refactor <solution> task to use <csc> and <vbc> tasks to compile assemblies.

Validate all static html for XHTML 1.1 compliance as part of the build process.

Add support for NUnit 2.1.

Add support for expression evaluator in all places where it makes sense. Support embedded expressions in strings.

Add <uptodate> task to replace deprecated uptodatefiles and comparefiles attributes of <if> task.

Add file::up-to-date function to replace deprecated uptodatefile and comparefile attributes of <if> task.

Add support for deprecating tasks/types/functions and named attributes.

Add <ftp> task.

Get MailTest added to test suite.

Ensure unit tests are available for all core classes.

Ensure code xml docs are complete and accurate for all non private members.

Update and add developer docs (code conventions, high level design).

Add additional optional but useful tasks (<sql>, <grep>).