Distribute CodeFormatter as NuGet package?

[ghuntley]

Howdy,

Any plans to ship CodeFormatter as a NuGet package so it can be installed via the command line:

PM> Install-Package CodeFormatter

Example usages, integration with a git-precommit hook or as part of a FAKE build script.

The GitHub guys (@shiftkey) have rolled their own package which is perfect but it has been customized for their coding convention used in Octokit -> https://www.nuget.org/packages/Octokit.CodeFormatter/1.0.0-preview

Potential duplicate, see #162.

[challe]

Any updates on this?

[ghuntley]

CodeFormatter was a one time thing by Microsoft to bring their closed source code up to spec. It isn't maintained by Microsoft and there's no assigned owner. Huge shame.

Personally I have wasted so much energy over the years as a consultant, team-lead and open-source maintainer about code style. It's stupid. Languages should autoformat by default. Was going some golang this afternoon and one thing that hits you immediately is just how GOOD having gofmt existing by default and an entire ecosystem using it.

[csr-nick]

@ghuntley agree. This project is MIT licensed; is anyone up for forking it and fixing the outstanding issues?

[hanabi1224]

I recently made a fork of this repo and created a nuget package: Dotnet.CodeFormatter.BuildTask.Fork. Hope it helps. @ghuntley @challe @csr-nick

[jmarolf]

We hope https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/master/src/Tools/dotnet-format will be the replacement for this repo someday

[sharwell]

🔗 Which is published here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/dotnet-format/