Target NetStandard to support .NET Core

[FlorianHockmann]

Could you add NetStandard as a target framework so that Cake.Docker can be used with .NET Core? Note also that there seem to be plans to deprecate Mono in Cake.

[MihaMarkic]

You mean in nuspec? I have to check out what exactly works. But yes, the idea certainly a good one.

[FlorianHockmann]

I think that you have to specify the target frameworks in the project file. The best option is probably to upgrade to the new csproj format which makes it really easy to target multiple frameworks. This article from Microsoft explains how an existing project that only targets .NET Framework can be upgraded to also target .NET Core. In the end, you have a csproj file that looks something like this.

[MihaMarkic]

@FlorianHockmann Yes, I know. I'm just trying to understand the Cake's support for .NET Core.

[secana]

Support for NetStandard would be really useful. So a big +1 from my site for this issue.

[MihaMarkic]

I'm certainly looking into this. Anybody knows of a Cake addin that supports .NET Standard?

[FlorianHockmann]

Cake.Npm seems to support it in addition to .NET Framework 4.5 and 4.6.

[MihaMarkic]

Looking at Cake.Npm. It references just (non-net standard) Cake.Core. I wonder whether it works fine with Cake.CoreCLR.

[MihaMarkic]

@secana @FlorianHockmann Can you guys give it a spin with .NET Standard/Core?

You'll find it (for testing) on myget at
#addin nuget:https://www.myget.org/f/righthand-test/?package=Cake.Docker

Version is 0.7.7.

[secana]

@MihaMarkic @FlorianHockmann I'll start testing the package this week. As soon as I've some results I'll share my feedback here

[secana]

@MihaMarkic Could you provide an download link for the package? Under Linux it's not possible to use #addin nuget:... because there is only the very old mono nuget binary. I would download the package by hand in that case. In the NuGet gallery there's a download link but I cannot find something similar for MyGet.

[secana]

I've tested DockerBuild under Linux in a Cake script and it works with netstandard and .net core. Pretty cool. I'll test a few more things and report back.

[secana]

One small thing: Your DockerPush* classes are in the folder Pull and the DockerPull* classes are in the folder Push

I guess that's not the way it was meant to be

[secana]

Summary: I've tested the basic docker stuff and everything works fine with .Net Core

I would say you can publish the new version to NuGet. Regards, secana

[MihaMarkic]

@secana, thank you very much. I'll check about that folders mismatch.

[secana]

@MihaMarkic Could you please upload the 0.7.7 to the NuGet gallery? We could start using it then in our build scripts which would be a great help.
Regards, secana

[MihaMarkic]

Uploaded 0.7.7 to NuGet.org. Thanks @FlorianHockmann and @secana for testing, suggestion and help.