Add Modules section

[cake-build]

Add Modules section

[pascalberger]

Modules are now listed at https://cakebuild.net/extensions/. It's possible to filter the list to modules or addins through the filter UI or by searchging for modules or addins

[fwinkelbauer]

This documentation should also include how to handle the packages.config file in the tools/modules folder. Here's the .gitignore entry that I am using:

tools/**/*
!tools/packages.config
!tools/modules
!tools/modules/packages.config

Line 3 and 4 might look weird, but you seem to need both.

[pascalberger]

#1522 added support for showing modules in extension list.

Last missing part is adding yml files for known modules which is tracked by cake-contrib/Cake.AddinDiscoverer#26.

[daveaglick]

Educate me - what's a module and how is it different from an addin? Is there a prototypical example module I should take a look at?

[devlead]

A module differs from an addin that it instead of adding features, replaces(or extends) core functionality in Cake
An example of this is Cake.LongPath.Module which replaces the filesystem abstraction with one that supports long paths on .NET 4.5.

[gep13]

@daveaglick another example would be this:

https://github.com/larzw/Cake.Paket

Where the #tool and #addin pre-processor directives are being extended to include support for another package manager, in addition to nuget.

[gep13]

@daveaglick I think this one would be a good candidate for a pairing session as well.

[gep13]

@fwinkelbauer yes, that is a good idea!

[pascalberger]

Mockup for replacing current addins page with an extension page which can also show modules: #1096 (comment)