Paket is a dependency manager for .NET and Mono projects, which is designed to work well with NuGet packages and also enables referencing files directly from GitHub repositories.
Project Page: http://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/
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Why Paket installs way more packages than Nuget?
Why Paket installs way more packages than Nuget by default? Is it normal behaviour or am I doing something wrong?
I followed Getting Started guide (but with the help of paket.powershell which I installed by choco install paket.powershell):
I made a…
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How to use paket from command line
I installed paket from nuget in Nuget Package Manager Console with:
Install-Package paket
I then tried to run paket convert-from-nuget. It stalled out on a user prompt (it wouldn't let me type into the package manager console). My next thought…
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MSB4020: The value "" of the "Project" attribute in element is invalid
I have a solution with .NET Framework projects in mostly F# and then a few in C#. I use Paket instead of NuGet for packet management. Now I've added my first .NET Standard 2.0 library to this solution.
When I run my build script, which runs another…
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Why does Paket need three files to support dependency management?
I am a Java developer used to Maven and Gradle, now coming into .NET and trying to understand Paket. From my understanding, Paket has three different files supporting a .NET solution's dependency management:
a root paket.dependencies file where…
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How to get correct resolution folder of F# Type Provider when referencing assemblies via #load?
I'm writing a type provider which allows the user to supply a configuration file to it. I use the TP's internal configuration object to identify the ResolutionFolder, which I use to get the fully-qualfied path to the config file. Great.
However,…
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How can I reference in paket.references a file from a git repository?
I have a TFS git repository in my paket.dependencies file:
git http://mytfs1server:8080/tfs/2015Projects/_git/DEV-Commons
Withing that repository, there is a file "src/Tools.fs"
In the paket.references file, how do I tell Paket to add a reference to…
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Paket framework restriction differences
I have added Argu to my project and about 700MB of packages were downloaded together with it. This is related to Paket installs extra packages however I would like to undestand the subtle differences in specifiying the framework restrictions with >=…
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Java developer needs help understanding the .NET build process in F#
Most of my development has been in Java, where I am used to having a runtime, a compiler, and a build tool. So now I'm trying to come into the .NET world, specifically using VSCode, Ionide plugin, and F#, to build an F# program. I'm having a hard…
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F# type conflict
I am using the parseFile function from Fantomas.FCS as follows:
open FSharp.Compiler.Text
open Fantomas.FCS.Parse
// ...
let ast, errors = parseFile false (FSharp.Compiler.Text.SourceText.ofString "let mutable x = 3") []
However, the compiler says…
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Paket: what is the point of the framework restrictions?
The paket.dependencies page of the Paket documentation describes the purpose of the framework restriction field framework very briefly, and I still don't understand what it does.
Apparently, the specified frameworks will cause Paket to download and…
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F# SAFE template: How to add library to the server?
I am trying to learn to use the SAFE framework and have installed the SAFE template.
I want to add some code to the server which interacts with a MySql DB, but nothing I have tried seems to result in VS2019 recognizing a reference to the MySql.Data…
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Why does Paket try to bring in hundreds of dependencies for CliWrap?
I'm using the latest .NET Core SDK on Ubuntu (dotnet-sdk-2.1 version 2.1.403) and I'm trying to install CliWrap on an empty project.
(In fact it's not even a project, it's a directory with .fsx files that load the dependencies using the #r F#…
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Paket include-referenced-projects with project references
I have a solution that looks like this:
-> Proj A
-> proj B
Proj B references Proj A
Both projects have a paket.template that looks like this:
When I paket pack, I get two nugets created, one for each project. Fantastic.
However, I now want to…
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Improve edit-run cycle time on .Net Core
I'm trying to improve the performance in Logary and am bumping into an unexpected issue with .Net Core; even a single-character change in Logary.PerfTests
causes a complete restore throughout all of the repository (I think), with this as a…
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Paket TimeoutException
I have the following paket.dependencies:
source https://www.nuget.org/api/v2
nuget Fable.Compiler 1.3.0-beta-002 beta
nuget FSharp.Core
nuget Fable.Core prerelease
nuget Fable.Import.Browser
clitool dotnet-fable 1.2.0-beta-005
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