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Command-line app development and distribution workflow

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This is kind of related to dotnet/sdk#8443.

Is there an easy way to develop, build and distribute command-line apps in .NET Core 2.0?

  • In Python, you set entry_points in setup.py and install app with pip install -e . during development.
  • In Node.js, you set bin in package.json and install app with npm link during development.
  • In Go, you write a main() function and install app with go install.
  • Etc.

So I understand that we can produce either portable (DLL) or self-contained (EXE) builds with dotnet publish -c <CONFIGURATION> -r <RUNTIME_IDENTIFIER>, but what happens next?

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments:7 (1 by maintainers)

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KathleenDollardcommented, Feb 8, 2018

Thank you for your input.

You’re “What’s hard” largely aligns with our backlog and we’ll keep it in our considerations.

We are working on the argument story. Nate McMaster’s library is not a bad place to be right now. We’re hoping to do better.

Kathleen

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What’s easy

  • Almost everything: no major difficulty with NuGet so far.
  • Searching and downloading packages directly from Visual Studio (Code|Mac). The integration is nice!
  • Automatical dependency management and cleaning.

What’s hard

What isn’t there

How difficult is setting up argument management and help

I don’t have a definitive opinion about this. Actually, I’m barely digging in the .NET ecosystem as I decided to learn C# only 2 weeks ago. Making a CLI was just a pretext. 🤓

I use the McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtilshttps://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuget.org%2Fpackages%2FMcMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils%2F&data=04|01|kathleen.dollard%40microsoft.com|433323fb37124454e37d08d56e7bd781|ee3303d7fb734b0c8589bcd847f1c277|1|0|636536400534247175|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D|-1&sdata=IXUu2r9AGk330OwsT3JhuZVgr%2FjjDWvMCNs94WEVM3c%3D&reserved=0 package and it does the job pretty well so far. Too bad it’s not a Microsoft “official” package anymore, even if it seems (well) maintained by Microsoft employees. Also, the documentation seems poor compared to something like Python’s argparsehttps://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.python.org%2F3%2Flibrary%2Fargparse.html&data=04|01|kathleen.dollard%40microsoft.com|433323fb37124454e37d08d56e7bd781|ee3303d7fb734b0c8589bcd847f1c277|1|0|636536400534247175|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwifQ%3D%3D|-1&sdata=9Za8AdM%2B9Yrfl96a2QMB7KhCxZFAnDEK9bvlcL1wYLQ%3D&reserved=0.

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xthezealotcommented, Feb 8, 2018

What’s easy

  • Almost everything: no major difficulty with NuGet so far.
  • Searching and downloading packages directly from Visual Studio (Code|Mac). The integration is nice!
  • Automatic dependency management and cleaning.

What’s hard

  • We only see a short summary of each package description so choosing the best one requires a visit to each project site. Integrating READMEs (when available) like NPM does should ease the process.
  • Figuring out the minimal requirements of a package (.NET Core and/or .NET Framework and which version).
  • Not hard but boring: the dialog asking for licenses acceptance at every package install.
  • Package signing but as I see, it’s also a WIP.

What isn’t there

  • Package search from the CLI like npm search.
  • Sorting search results by total number of downloads rather than “relevance”. Thats an old request.
  • Convenient CLI helpers like npm version or npm outdated.
  • Interesting stats about the package code (like test coverage, at least).
  • Maybe an in-browser playground for each package. But I assume that’s a lot of work for little benefit.

How difficult is setting up argument management and help

I don’t have a definitive opinion about this. Actually, I’m barely digging in the .NET ecosystem as I decided to learn C# only 2 weeks ago. Making a CLI was just a pretext. 🤓

I use McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils and it does the job pretty well so far. Too bad it’s not a Microsoft “official” package anymore, even if it seems (well) maintained by Microsoft employees. Also, the documentation seems poor compared to something like Python’s argparse.

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