Provide an option to install Fake.dll (portable) using Paket

[pkese]

Description

According to instructions in #1765, I'm now trying to move to "netcore-fake", but there appears to be no migration path for Paket users:
There appears to be no way to install any sort of Paket compatible Nuget package that would distribute a Fake.dll which one could run using dotnet fake.dll.

Repro steps

Add nuget FAKE<anything> prerelease to paket.dependencies.
Run paket update && paket install

Expected behavior

Have Fake.dll available anywhere in ./packages

Actual behavior

Fake.dll nowhere to be found.

Known workarounds

Manually download fake-dotnetcore-portable.zip from https://github.com/fsharp/FAKE/releases

Related information

• Operating system: Windows 10
• Revision: 5.0.beta12
• .NET Runtime, CoreCLR or Mono Version: 2.0.x

[matthid]

I think the dotnet-fake package should work with the paket reprotools feature?

[pkese]

I tried installing dotnet-fake using Paket and sure I get dotnet-fake.dll installed.
However, when trying to run it, I get

>dotnet packages\dotnet-fake\lib\netcoreapp2.0\dotnet-fake.dll

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Argu, 
Version=3.7.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. The system cannot find the file specified.
   at Program.main(String[] args)

However if I manually installed and ran dotnet fake.dll from fake-dotnetcore-portable.zip, then that woudn't fail.

Do I understand correctly, that I'm suppose to create a dummy .csproj with a reference to dotnet-fake and then somehow run dotnet with a reference to that .csproj?
(I'd actually prefer not to put extra .csproj files to my root directory).

[matthid]

the csproj is the nuget way. paket will hopefully support cli tools soon.
/cc @enricosada @forki

[matthid]

Personaly I have no objections in providing just another nuget package containing everything, but it feels wrong...

[matthid]

I'm closing this for now, as I think the correct thing to do is to use

repotool dotnet-fake

once we have fsprojects/Paket#2938

However, like stated above I'm not against releasing just another package if after the above PR we still feel the need. The current workaround is to use curl and the portable release, a csproj file or the global fake installation.

Feel free to suggest otherwise.