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<h1>History</h1>
<p>The idea for NAnt came from <a title="Hazware home page" href="http://www.hazware.com/xbHome.htm">Hazware's XBuild</a> project which in turn was inspired from <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/">Apache Ant</a>. After emailing the author for a beta 2 release of the tool and getting no response Gerry Shaw ported the code to .NET beta 2. Due to the number of changes from .NET beta 1 to beta 2 the result was a total rewrite.</p>
<p>NAnt was registered at Source Forge on July 18, 2001 with the first public release made that day.</p>
<p>The name NAnt comes from the fact that this tool is <em>Not</em> Ant.</p>
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