Beta builds, please

[tgjones]

Beta builds, please

[Tristyn]

That would be great. Only the core NuGet package would need a beta version, as it seems that the majority of pull requests are directed towards it. Mark it as a prerelease package.

[tgjones]

It's a great idea. I'm in the process of moving the automated build (which also pushes packages to NuGet) from my TeamCity server to AppVeyor, and I'll try to set this up as part of that.

[4ux-nbIx]

Awesome! Thanks

[4ux-nbIx]

@tgjones, any update on this? Thanks!

[tgjones]

Yes, I've been working on it. It's looking like the best option is to host "continuous" NuGet packages on AppVeyor itself (AppVeyor can act has a NuGet server), rather than polluting nuget.org with lots of pre-release packages.

It would mean adding another NuGet feed in Visual Studio options, but apart from that it should be seamless.

[4ux-nbIx]

Personally, I don't really care where they'd come from. Just add a note in read-me and I'll know what to do. I don't think a lot of people would need beta builds and adding another NuGet feed is not so hard, so AppVeyor would work just fine.

[tgjones]

This was held up by an AppVeyor bug. But I've worked around it, for Gemini v0.6, by making the continuous build version numbers start at 5001.

So you can now add this URL (it's also in the readme) as a NuGet package source, to get beta builds:
https://ci.appveyor.com/nuget/gemini-g66c82jjbsu1