Last weekend, I met Dru Sellers at Monospace. At some point, I complained to him that my projects didn’t have proper cross-platform build scripts because blah blah blah. He called me a whiny baby and kicked me in the balls.

Kayak 0.7.1 is out this evening. It is available on NuGet. This is mostly a bugfix release, but it’s a rather significant milestone for me because for the first time, Kayak has a proper build script. Many thanks to Dru for inflicting such acute abuse, and also to the FubuMVC and Nancy guys—I got quite a bit of, er, inspiration from FubuMVC’s build script and Nancy’s build script. Thanks also to Derick Bailey for his work on Albacore without which none of this would be possible.

Anyway, the changes:

• Turns out a proper 100-continue response is prefixed with “HTTP/1.1”. So I added that.
• BeginConnect seems to be a pile of fail on Mono 2.10. Work-around by invoking the synchronous Connect method on the thread pool.
• Rake-based build script!

If you have problems, challenge me to a game of roshambo on the Kayak Google Group.