Octopack: Additional files copied in a pre-build event

Question

I am trying to get Octopack to include some additional dll's that are not part of my Visual Studio project.

Is there a way to get Octopack to use my csproj files (as normal) and then specify just the additional files I need, rather than using the section in the nuspec. (Because then I have to maintain a list of all project files in my nuspec)

I am currently copying some shared libraries to a folder "/providers" in a pre-build event. Is there a way to extend on this to copy them somewhere that Octopack will see and package them?

Answer 1

You don't need to maintain a list of all your project files in your nuspec file, you can do this:

<files>
    <file src="MyProject.Website\**\*.*" target="" />
</files>

This will grab everything in your project (all files and sub directories). If that's too much for you, you can take advantage of exclusion rules:

<files>
    <file src="MyProject.Website\**\*.*" target="" exclude="MyProject.Website\docs\admin.txt" />
</files>

Hope that helps.