sillsdev/sil.buildtasks

Several useful msbuild tasks

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Several useful msbuild tasks.

Current Tasks

SIL.ReleaseTasks package

Task	Description
CreateChangelogEntry	Given a Changelog file, this task will add an entry to the debian changelog.
CreateReleaseNotesHtml	Given a markdown-style changelog file, this class will generate a release notes HTML file.
StampChangelogFileWithVersion	Replaces the first line in a markdown-style Changelog/Release file with the version and date.
SetReleaseNotesProperty	Given a markdown-style changelog file, this class will set a property to the changes mentioned in the topmost release.

SIL.BuildTasks package

Task	Description
Archive
CpuArchitecture	Return the CPU architecture of the current system.
DownloadFile	Download a file from a web address.
FileUpdate
MakePot
MakeWixForDirTree
NormalizeLocales	Drops country code from directories and filenames to help work with Crowdin
NUnit	Run NUnit (v2) on a test assembly.
NUnit3	Run NUnit3 on a test assembly.
Split
StampAssemblies
UnixName	Determine the Unix Name of the operating system executing the build.
UpdateBuildTypeFile

Build

Windows or Linux

Install .NET 6.0 SDK from https://dot.net/core-sdk-vscode .

Build and run tests:

dotnet pack --configuration Release SIL.ReleaseTasks.Dogfood/SIL.ReleaseTasks.Dogfood.csproj
dotnet test

Building a local package of SIL.BuildTasks for testing (Windows)

1. Run the Pack build command from inside Visual Studio on the SIL.ReleaseTasks.Dogfood project
2. Run the Pack build command from inside Visual Studio on the SIL.BuildTasks project
3. Install the package from the output folder into your local Nuget source e.g.nuget.exe add output/Debug/SIL.BuildTasks.2.3.5-beta.1.nupkg -Source /c/Repositories/DevelopmentPackages/