Do 'init.ps1' scripts still works when installing a NuGet package?

Question

This question might be a little outdated, but does 'init.ps1' scripts still works when installing a nupkg?

I was trying to use 'install.ps1' and 'uninstall.ps1', but after a little bit of research I've seen that those files stopped working with Visual Studio 2017 (which is the version of Visual I'm currently using), but I have not found any recent information about 'init.ps1' (being the most recent from 2017 or 2018).

My script is working correctly when executed by itself but seems like it's not getting called on the package install.

In the case that 'init.ps1' still works here's my '.nuspec' file, am I doing something wrong?:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2013/05/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <id>NugetTry</id>
    <version>0.0.142</version>
    <title>NugetTry</title>
    <authors>rwpk9</authors>
    <description>Description</description>
    <copyright>Copyright ©  2023</copyright>
    <dependencies>
      <group targetFramework=".NETFramework4.7.2">
        <dependency id="EntityFramework" version="6.4.4" />
        <dependency id="Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.es" version="5.2.9" />
        <dependency id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="13.0.2" />
      </group>
    </dependencies>
  </metadata>
  <files xmlns="">
    <file src="init.ps1" target="." />
  </files>
  <powershell xmlns="">
    <scripts>
      <base><![CDATA[init.ps1]]></base>
    </scripts>
  </powershell>
</package>

My 'init.ps1' is at the same path as the '.nuspec'.

Answer 1

The init.ps1 file needs to be in a tools/ directory, not the package root. So, the zip file's central directory record has a path of tools/init.ps1