monopm

A package manangement system for Mono

This utility provides a wrapper around the Nuget package manager and allows you to store the dependencies for your project in a JSON file rather than XML. The aim of this tool is to make the use of nuget easier to use and to wrap the full functionality of nuget.

Install

$ npm istall -g monopm

Setup

If you want to rely on the default path for the nuget executable you need to set up an environment variable called NUGET_PATH. An example set up could be:

export NUGET_PATH=$HOME/bin/nuget.exe

Usage

monopm {OPTIONS}

The available options are:
  --dependencyFile, Used to indicate the location of the configuration file containing all of the dependency information. It defaults to 'dependencies.json'.
  -h                Display help for this command.

The Structure of a Dependency File

{
    "libraryPath": 'newLib',
    "nugetPath": '/home/nuget.exe',
    "packages": [
        { "name": "Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi", "version": "5.2.2"},
        { "name": "Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client", "version": "5.2.2"},
        { "name": "Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core", "version": "5.2.2"}
    ]
}

• libraryPath : The directory where the packages will be installed. This setting is optional and if it is not provided then it will default to ./lib
• nugetPath : The path to the nuget executable. This setting is optional and if it is not provided then it will use the path stored in the $NUGET_PATH environment variable.
• packages : The list of packages to be installed for this project.
  • name: The name of the package to install, this maps to packageId in nuget speak.
  • version: The version of the package to install.