Paket: Support PrivateAssets in NuGet packages

[matthid]

Support PrivateAssets and dependencies who are marked as developmentDependency

• [ ] developmentDependency
• [ ] PrivateAssets

[enricosada]

original by @matthid

Paket.Core depends on FSharp.NET.Sdk

It probably shouldn't, see https://www.nuget.org/packages/Paket.Core
Interestingly I think this "bug" makes it possible for all the other projects to build with msbuild 15.

We probably need a way to mark a dependency as "compile-time" only.

/cc @forki @enricosada

Good catch.
It shoudnt.
That's the privateassets=all part

[enricosada]

Paket should implement something similar to the privateassets spec of packagereference.
That's used for analyzes, compile time stuff (like test lib helpers) etc
And is written in the nuspec too

[matthid]

More info (via @enricosada, thanks):

https://github.com/NuGet/Home/wiki/PackageReference-Specification

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/schema/nuspec#dependencies

PrivateAsset leads to include attribute:

I think this needs to be a transitive setting, but we should first check that with dotnet cli.

[tpluscode]

Any chance for this? Currently it's effectively impossible for me package with neither dotnet pack nor paket pack because of #3191.

The former adds development dependencies to nupkg and the latter only packages one target. Please don't force me to use csproj dependencies :)

EDIT
I guess I can still use type file to define entire package manually. I guess this will do for now...

[forki]

@matthid we already have private assets. What's still to do here?

[matthid]

And how? We can close this if we add a link to the docs :)

[forki]

[matthid]

@forki But where does this come from? paket.references? So what (from a users standpoint) needs to be changed to make a dependency a private asset? Do we have docs around that?

[bigjonroberts]

@matthid It looks like forki resolved this here:
https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket/commit/85f3c9e0ad1b6fe0138a2432aec5c8b7d5cc0b56
The syntax is to add copy_local:true in the paket.dependencies file.

I believe it is documented here:
https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/dependencies-file.html#Controlling-whether-assemblies-should-be-copied-to-the-output-directory-during-build