AltNuget

Description

AltNuget allows you to copy all the necessary elements of Nuget packages to a single folder

Motivation

If you don’t use build systems, it is difficult to get the necessary components from Nuget, taking into account TargetFramework and dependencies. AltNuget tries to solve this problem.

Possible AltNuget applications

• PowerShell scripts
• PascalABC.NET (if you don’t use the MSBuild SDK in your project)
• Other automation

Usage

1. Install the AltNuget and add it to PATH
2. Create the packages.config file. For example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages targetFramework="net472">
	<package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="13.0.3"/>
	<package id="Telegram.Bot" version="19.0.0" />
</packages>

1. Run AltNuget install packages.config -OutputDirectory .\lib

The contents of the specified packages and their dependencies will be placed in .\lib. Only elements for the specified TargetFramework are copied

Building

1. Install the necessary programs
   • PascalABC.NET
   • AltNuget
     Yes, we use AltNuget for AltNuget development
2. Add programs to PATH
3. Run Build.ps1