Integrate Ivy in a dotNet build

I’m currently involved in a .Net shop and I’m working on redesigning the build pipeline (good old CI stuff). Ivy appeared in our brainstorming sessions as a solution for having a more defined control on the projects dependencies requirement.

The problem is that currently (but you never know about the future ;-) ) there isn’t a .Net native port of Ivy.

This can be solved using the exec tag from your NAnt script and using java as an external program. Here is the bit to add to your NAnt build script: