Regression - paket install removing CopyToOutputDirectory property

[ghost]

Hi,
I was using version 2.51.4.0 before updating to 2.52.9.0. From now on, when I do paket install, my csproj included items go from:

<ItemGroup>  
<Content Include="filepath">  
  <Paket>True</Paket>  
  <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>  
</Content>  
...
</ItemGroup>

To:

<ItemGroup>  
<Content Include="filepath">
  <Paket>True</Paket>
</Content>  
...
</ItemGroup>

Effectively removing my "CopyToOutputDirectory" directive... and breaking my build.

[forki]

did you add that manually?

what package are you using? Can I reproduce this?

[ghost]

In this situation, I installed a home-made nuget component where a couple of DLLs are defined as "content", not as "lib". Doing so, when paket installs it, it adds these xml tags to the csproj. Everything's fine so far.

But from that point, I indeed manually set the "Copy to Output Directory" property for these DLLs with the help of Visual Studio.

[forki]

mhm. then this is not really a regression. you were relying on a bug ;-)

Anyways let's make that work. We need something like http://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/references-files.html#copy_local-settings for content files right?

[ghost]

I think so because I don't only copy DLLs but other kind of files that are definitely not .Net assemblies, but they are mandatory resources at runtime for my app. - i.e. I could not simply tag as "lib" in my nuget package.

BTW, thanks for your great responsiveness and support @forki.

[forki]

so this is implemented. see http://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/nuget-dependencies.html#CopyToOutputDirectory-settings

please let me know if this works for you

[ghost]

Just got 2.54.0, when I set something like,
nuget jQuery CopyToOutputDirectory: always

I get something like,

Paket version 2.54.0.0
Paket failed with:
        Error in paket.dependencies line 23
  Unknown package settings copytooutputdirectory: always

To work, I must use the property named 'copy_content_to_output_dir' instead of 'CopyToOutputDirectory'.

But doing so everything works as expected.

[forki]

lol. I would appreciate a PR to the docs. ;-)

[tsibelman]

@forki Is copy_content_to_output_dir works if specified in line of specific dependency ?

[forki]

it should.

[ghost]

It works.

nuget COMPONENT ~> VERSION copy_content_to_output_dir: always

[tsibelman]

Thank you, documentation is scarce on this

[tsibelman]

Another question, maybe this feature should not copy items that are of type Compile ?

[forki]

please help to improve it.

2016-04-04 15:55 GMT+02:00 tsibelman [email protected]:

Thank you, documentation is scarce on this

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