adamfoneil / nugetpush

A dotnet tool for pushing NuGet packages

Problem Statement

I've not found a really easy way to push updated packages to NuGet.org. You can of course follow Microsoft's own guidance. I feel like there's too much admin and manual steps in this approach.

I've used CI solutions like AppVeyor successfully, but I find AppVeyor kind of hard to setup. It has a maze settings -- I struggle with it. Although I've gotten it to work for some things, I've also found myself unable to get other projects working, and I couldn't figure out why. I've ended up doing it manually through NuGet.org's manual upload UI. I got tired of doing that, so I wanted to take a fresh look automating it in a console app. I'd like to be able to navigate to a package build directory and enter a command like this:

nugetpush

The program should find the packages in the current directory along with your API key and push your packages and symbols, if present.

Get Started

1. Install the tool package globally:

dotnet tool install --global NuGetPushTool

2. If you don't have one, create an API key at NuGet.org. Info about this is here.

3. Create a json file called nugetpush.json in a directory above your .NET projects. For example, if your projects are in directories below %userprofile%\source\repos, then create nugetpush.json in that folder. At minimum your file should look like the example below. This file is based on this Options model. Put your API key in the ApiKey property.

Example

{
    "ApiKey": "<your key>"
}

You should now be able to push packages from any directory on your machine that has NuGet packages. Navigate to the directory in a terminal window and type nugetpush.

Code Tour

• Options defines available command line options
• Program.cs shows the high-level flow
• Program_methods.cs has the low-level implementation

nugetpush's Issues

frequent initial failure followed by success

I'm finding that the nugetpush command almost always fails initially, then works on the second try with no other changes.
What's going on?