How to instruct NAnt to include the console output to its log file defined in '-l' option?

Question

I have a custom NAnt task, which writes to console like this:

Console.WriteLine("Status message: " + message);

If I run my buildscript specifying the log to write to (-l:log.txt), the log file doesn't contain those lines which come from Console.WriteLine. The console window displays all info, obviously.

I know I can redirect the output to log in this way instead:

nant ... > log.txt

But this is not what I'm looking for.

So, the questions are:

• Is it possible to instruct NAnt somehow to grab this console output to its log?
• Should I change the custom task to achieve this?

Answer 1

Your task should use NAnt Logger instead of writing to console. Plain and simple. Redirection won't work when NAnt is using other loggers, e.g. XML output.