Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here's how we should solve it

Re:Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here's how ... by MichaelGG on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:21AM (#7571935)

>Let’s look at the Node.js community and how they manage to do things

Node.js? The one that pulls in like 10,000 files to run a simple grunt build?

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Re:Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here's how ... by chton on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:26AM (#7571956)

It's not perfect, but at least you don't have to manually install 10,000 files just to be able to build in the first place. Or worry that your build server is running on the wrong version of Windows. Or even do anything special to get it to build. It's not perfect, but it's better than what we have now by a huge margin.

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Re:Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here's how ... by thespace123 on Friday April 11, 2014 @07:42AM (#7572307)

The benefit of npm is that everything is modular and patchable. To me it outweighs the 10,000 files issue.

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Re:Building .NET projects is a world of pain and here's how ... by maartenba on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:25AM (#7571952)

I said "most" projects :-) But even with that I don't have to go through my build logs 50 times before finding out which dependencies have to be installed for the build to work. The build should "just work".

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