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[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 23:03:45 UTC, Kapps wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 11:46:39 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> Okay, so I'll stop being a dick for a minute, I'm actually 
>> curious to know
>> how you imagine it working with a tool like VisualStudio.
>> It sounds like you're not just talking about a tool to fetch 
>> libs and
>> dependencies, but also perform the build? And the dependencies 
>> are detailed
>> in the build script?
>> An inflexible build system like Visual Studio doesn't really 
>> handle that
>> very well.
>>
>
> In an ideal world, your VS plugin would support Packages in the 
> Add References dialog. Just like you could, in theory, add a 
> project as a reference, you would add a package. Then, upon 
> build, the plugin would call the package manager and get the 
> libraries / imports required for it, appending the options to 
> the compilre for your own build. This is something that 
> wouldn't be particularly difficult to make a plugin for given 
> an existing package manager. Mono-Develop would perform in the 
> same way I'd imagine.

This already exists, it is called NuGet.

Besides, Visual Studio projects are actually MSBuild scripts, for 
me that is quite flexible.

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Paulo