Add creating .NET Core Global Tool package

philippgille / hello-netcoreapp

Basic .NET Core console application with additional scripts and files for building the app and creating release artifacts for a framework-dependent deployment, self-contained deployment, Docker image, Chocolatey package and AppImage

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Add creating .NET Core Global Tool package #50

Open philippgille opened 6 years ago

philippgille commented 6 years ago

.NET Core 2.1 introduces ".NET Core Global Tools", inspired by npm. This is a great feature and we should also support this.

.NET Core 2.1 Preview Announcement Blog Post
Official sample
Blog post by Nate McMaster

This doesn't replace Chocolatey or AppImage, because it requires the .NET Core runtime to be installed, which is not the case with our Chocolatey or AppImage packages.