Yeah, this was discussed here and there before. I think it came down to someone
just needs to do the work in NuGet.
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From: Heath Stewart [mailto:hea...@outlook.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 1:05 AM
To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-devs] NuGet support for wixlibs, extensions
I was working on a couple of bugs for NuGet when I noticed a comment in the
source about not supporting .wixproj because there's currently no way to add
libraries to the project. That got me to thinking about a potential idea I
wanted to run across the DL first and get some ideas and I can open a feature
and corresponding WIP.
I would need to talk about a few details with the NuGet maintainers, but I was
thinking that, much like net20, net40, net45, etc. folders, developers could
add .wixlibs and .dll binary extensions to folder names like wix3 or wix4 and,
when added, will add the appropriate references via WixLibrary or WixExtension
items. This could make sharing libraries very easy among an organization, or
even make composing bundles or packages easier if someone wanted to, say,
pre-req or install some dependency package. You can do it through refs (and
that wouldn't change), but this just makes it easier to add those refs and
would work well with many build systems.
Heath Stewart
Software Design Engineer
Visual Studio, Microsoft
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths
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