Is NAnt in the dead pool?

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Published on 2010-03-09T22:47:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 6:27 UTC
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I know NAnt sees frequent use (well, I always use it for my CI builds) but there has been no new official release since December 2007. Is the project receiving active development any more or is it dead-pooled? It worries me that if I carry on using it, and it stops tracking the latest version of .NET, I'll eventually be left with a massive job when it comes to upgrading systems to a version of the framework that it can't build.

Has everyone else gone over to some other tool like MSBuild these days?

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