Dyalog NuGet

A thin wrapper around the dotnet command line interface (CLI) which makes it convenient to depend on NuGet packages from Dyalog APL.

Potential names:

• NuGetConsume
• DyNuGet
• DNuGet
• UsingNuGet
• Dyalog NuGet, but just NuGet in the workspace.

Design

We can establish a namespace in the active workspace which contains metadata from a .NET project which defines a .NET class object.

Adding a package or doing a restore? to a project also does a full dotnet publish command to copy into the nuget-packages folder.

• Adding a package simply does dotnet add, which may download
• When NuGet.Using is called, the project is "published". Subsequent calls of Using simply have the path to the top-level assembly which is being used.

NuGet targets the project for the version of .NET currently available in the active workspace. A Dyalog forum post states how users can set the version of .NET being used by Dyalog.

Usage

NuGet.Add'Clock'
NuGet.Add'Parquet'