[MonoDevelop] add-in pre build event

[Andres G. Aragoneses]

Matt, shouldn't the Nuget addin watch for changes in the packages.config 
file, and restore packages if there's a change in it?

On 18/06/15 00:24, Matt Ward wrote:
> In Xamarin Studio you could right click the solution, select Restore
> NuGet Packages and then build. You would not need to re-open the
> solution each time. It is not automatic though.
>
> On 17 June 2015 at 22:31, Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com
> <mailto:trampster at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for your reply Matt,
>
>     That's the info that I was looking for.
>
>     Regarding NuGet, Doing it on opening the solution makes a lot of sense
>     as you describe for a lot of people. However at the place I work we
>     use nuget to deploy fast changing internal dependencies (multiple new
>     versions per day).
>
>     Our build server detects the new versions and updates the
>     packages.config to use the new versions, when then pull from our
>     source control (with our solution still open) we then need the restore
>     to run before build. In Visual Studio this happen automatically before
>     build.
>
>     Having to reload our solutions in order to pick up new dependency
>     versions many times a day would be a pain. The solution I'm working on
>     at the moment has been open for three days, meaning my packages will
>     be 3 days and many, many versions out of date.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Daniel
>
>
>
>     On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Matt Ward <ward.matt at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ward.matt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > The NuGet addin in MonoDevelop 5 restores NuGet packages when the
>     solution
>      > is opened. There is an option in Preferences that you can use to
>     disable or
>      > enable this. It was decided to do the restore on opening the solution
>      > instead of pre-build since the assemblies are then made available
>     for code
>      > completion as soon as possible.
>      >
>      > The ProjectService has a BuildStarted event which you could use
>     to trigger
>      > some pre-build logic.
>      >
>      > On 17 June 2015 at 06:27, Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com
>     <mailto:trampster at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >> I'm trying to implement a mono develop add-in for a package manager
>      >> which will restore packages on before a build.
>      >>
>      >> I've had a look at:
>      >>
>      >>
>     http://www.monodevelop.com/developers/articles/extension-tree-reference/
>      >>
>      >> But am struggling to identify the extension point to use to get
>     a pre
>      >> build event.
>      >>
>      >> Does anyone know what extension point I need and also does
>     anyone know
>      >> of an add-in which hooks the pre-build to perform an action, that I
>      >> can use as an example.
>      >>
>      >> I already looked at the nuget addin but that doesn't yet do a
>     restore
>      >> in a pre build hook. This is going to be a problem for nuget in the
>      >> future because the recommended way of using nuget is to run the
>      >> restore prebuild in a IDE hook, rather then the old
>      >> MSBuild-Integrated package restore. People are going to start
>      >> complaining that their visual studio solutions setup for automatic
>      >> package restore don't work in Mono Develop. However that is an aside
>      >> and is a problem for another day.
>      >>
>      >> Cheers,
>      >> Daniel
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