Integrate Cake as a dotnet CLI extension for .NET Core applications

I couldn’t find if this has been suggested before, but I was looking at FlubuCore and how they integrate nicely with the dotnet CLI.

It struck me that this might be a perfect fit for cake too. I mean, wouldn’t it be nice to do the following:

1. Restore regular NuGet packages and Cake with its addins dotnet restore

2. Run the do-the-thing task that you would normally call with build.ps1 -Target "do-the-thing" dotnet cake do-the-thing

I’m currently using Cake on a few projects here at work, and it’s great! This sort of integration would make it even better though. 👍

[phillipsj]

So I have started doing exactly this: https://github.com/phillipsj/dotnet-cake

I think it would be easier to just

nuget install dotnet-cake

The run the command like above

dotnet cake build -Target

I have slowed down on it, but with the recent talk of bringing more of the bootstrapper into Cake itself, this is going to be a little simpler.

[phillipsj]

That is why both options exist. I will pick back up work for the tool later this month.

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018, 3:41 PM Adam Hathcock [e-mail] wrote:

That doesn’t seem desirable to me.

I want a cake file that’s an easy script to read for gluing builds together.

The worst part of cake has always been invoking it. Installing a global tool that’s just “cake -t build” or something seems great to me.

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