MSBuild is now open source on GitHub

Post by cwyers » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 9:03 PM UTC

edandersen wrote: post #5

Nobody is seriously going to fork this and create their own port of MSBuild, possibly one of the most mocked and reviled parts of the .NET ecosystem. I do however congratulate the ground level MS staffers on the effort it likely took to convice the Risk and Legal departments that open sourcing something like this won't make their business fail. That must have been trying.

Post by markcerqueira » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 9:06 PM UTC

steveklabnik wrote: post #10

The, uh, first PR: https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/pull/1

Post by joshstrange » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 9:10 PM UTC

plorkyeran wrote: post #14

joshstrange wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I agree, having access to the source of your build tool can be invaluable for debugging odd issues. So while no one will ever want to fork this they may use it as reference and/or for debugging.

I definitely look forward to being able to check the source for all the things with zero meaningful documentation beyond a few old blog posts and a book.

Post by edandersen » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 9:11 PM UTC

cwyers wrote: post #11

edandersen wrote: post #5

Nobody is seriously going to fork this and create their own port of MSBuild, possibly one of the most mocked and reviled parts of the .NET ecosystem. I do however congratulate the ground level MS staffers on the effort it likely took to convice the Risk and Legal departments that open sourcing something like this won't make their business fail. That must have been trying.

> Nobody is seriously going to fork this and create their own port of MSBuild, possibly one of the most mocked and reviled parts of the .NET ecosystem. You're probably right. But it does mean there's one more part of the .NET ecosystem that potentially runs on Linux and OSX, and that's probably the reasoning behind this.

Post by angersock » Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 9:13 PM UTC