Should 1.0 is now available via nuproj
I’m quite excited lately by the movement buzzing around Nubular (a.k.a. #nuproj), a package management system for .NET.
The smart folks behind Nu have decided to use Ruby, the Ruby Gems package manager, and RubyGems.org to host, deploy, and install .NET libraries. One of those folks, Rob Reynolds, has done a good write-up of the past, present, and future of .NET Open Source Software Delivery from the Nu perspective, so I won’t repeat that here.
Today I took my first foray into creating a “nugget” building one for an open source library I’ve contributed to and use regularly.
On a Windows box with Ruby and the Nu gem installed, adding the latest version of Should to your project is now as easy as
[powershell]
c:\> cd c:\dev\myProject
c:\dev\myProject\> nu install should
[/powershell]
Nu will check for the Should gem, download it if necessary, and unpack it into .\lib\should for you.
Nu already has lots of packages available for a quick and easy install; check out the list and try the nuggets for some of the tools that you arleady use.
Follow @nuproj on twitter or search on #nuproj to see updates to the tool.