FAKE + BuildMagic

[Ryan Riley]

It would be really cool to see FAKE used with BuildMagic to avoid having to store any assemblies in source control. I assume this would mean that MSBuild would need to be used to kick off the build rather than FAKE, which would then be downloaded and used to run the rest of the build. Is this just extra indirection, or would this be useful to anyone?

[Mauricio Scheffer]

FWIW I think it's interesting. It could be a NuGet package depending on both FAKE and BuildMagic, that consisted of a small Powershell script acting as a wrapper around FAKE but first making sure BuildMagic is run.

[Anton Tayanovskyy]

Hi,

It was pointed out to me that BuildMagic is now obsolete since NuGet targets have the same mechanics built-in these days. I had success with a setup where I commit NuGet.targets and a little bootstrapper MSBuild file, and that downloads FAKE and kicks it in. WebSharper repository will soon be using this approach. There are two things really:

1. Ability to do two steps, first get NuGet dependencies, then run the FAKE build. You can then use NuGet dependencies from FAKE. 

2. MSBuild starts the build - this does sound like an extra indirection but sometimes it is hard-wired, as in the case of AppHarbor.

For #1 like to see an improved FSI that compiles incrementally. Then there would be less of a need to do such hacks, since an incremental FSI would have an arbitrary number interleaved compile/execute stages. You can imagine something like this:

download "dep.dll"

;; // compile and execute everything before this line before going further

#r "dep.dll"

open Dep

...

Thanks,

--A

[Steffen Forkmann]

Hi,

 

what I usually do is:

 

1)      Commit nuget.exe to the repo

2)      Create a bat which uses nuget to download the latest FAKE version

3)      The first target in the build script uses the RestorePackages task (https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE/blob/develop/src/app/FakeLib/RestorePackageHelper.fs#L34) to download all dependencies

4)      Create a build.bat which does 1-3 (and of course a build) in one go

 

This is all used as dog food in the FAKE build itself, see https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE/blob/develop/build.cmd

 

Cheers,

Steffen

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[Anton Tayanovskyy]

Yes, this is almost as good as it gets. I just discovered a way to
bypass step 1. Not really worth it perhaps. --A

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