Sid S created AVRO-1431: --------------------------- Summary: Publish the Avro C# library to NuGet Key: AVRO-1431 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1431 Project: Avro Issue Type: New Feature Components: csharp Affects Versions: 1.7.5 Reporter: Sid S
ASF's Avro library is currently distributed as a downloadable .tar.gz file from the project web site for C# projects. A more streamline approach would be to distribute the library (and perhaps tools) as NuGet packages so that project repositories using Avro can instead get the l;ibrary from NuGet at build time (very similar to Maven's library dependency resolution). How to make a NuGet package: http://docs.nuget.org/docs/creating-packages/creating-and-publishing-a-package To be able to run NuGet on Linux (eg: build machine or dev machine): http://monomvc.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/nuget-on-mono/ The desire to have Avro on NuGet is motivated by two main benefits 1) Easier integration and lightweight code-repositories for all consumer-projects of the Avro library 2) Counters the effects of finding an incompatible "Avro" library on NuGet. (Details: Currently searching for Avro on NuGet brings up the Microsoft Hadoop team's Avro library which forces every Avro field to be nullable => alters the schema => breaks wire compatibility in cross-platform environments. Having the official ASF Avro library on NuGet would prevent people from accidentally using that incompatible library) For the best flexibility, we can have two NuGet packages: 1. "Avro" = Library only (this will cover the avro.dll) 2. "Avro Tools" = The code-gen tools for IDL compiling as well as Schema compiling -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)