Paket: Package manager for .NET and Mono • Hacker News Board

Re: Paket: Package manager for .NET and Mono

#11

Post by aggieben » Sat, Sep 13, 2014, 5:00 AM UTC

My answer to the main question in the faq, "Why do I need Paket instead of nuget?" (my paraphrase) is this: meh. NuGet's behavior simply doesn't cause me that many problems, and when it's a superbigdeal I can just get a git submodule and be on my merry way. The one killer feature I want is an easy way to convert a downloaded NuGet package into a folder of the latest sources.

And hey: NuGet is open-source.

Re: Paket: Package manager for .NET and Mono

#12

Post by Too » Sat, Sep 13, 2014, 6:31 AM UTC

    How to get Paket

    Paket is available on NuGet. To install the tool, run the following command in the Package Manager Console:
    PM> Install-Package Paket

Oh no, don't give us another Python easyinstall mess; you need a package manager to get another package manager to get a third package manager. Well, at least it's not called "easy install" because that's exactly what it's not unless you already have everything installed. The whole purpose of a package manager is to avoid dependency mess and instead we get another 2 links in the chain that has to be installed manually.

Re: Paket: Package manager for .NET and Mono

#13

Post by Too » Sat, Sep 13, 2014, 6:32 AM UTC

WorldWideWayne wrote: post #9

One thing I wish NuGet would do - let me download packages directly from Github, like Bower and Grunt do. I do use Bower and Grunt with ASP.NET but usually mixed with some NuGet packages. It would be nice to have one system for all.

Wouldn't git submodules work for that? Assuming you use git for your own repo.