The extension doesn't support the -experimental flag

[thomaslevesque]

I use the -experimental flag to enable C# 6 features. Apparently the extension doesn't provide a way to pass this flag to cake.exe, so my Cake tasks fail to compile.

[agc93]

I'll take a look at this, and I should be able to add it alongside the other options

[thomaslevesque]

btw, I was wondering: why do I still need "experimental" to use C# 6 features? C# 6 has been out for more than a year. I thought it was because the Roslyn scripting APIs weren't yet stable, but now they are...

[patriksvensson]

We still target .NET 4.5 and that is using the older Roslyn bits. The experimental bits are not even the latest either but pre-release bits (but still a lot newer).

If you truly want the latest Roslyn bits, then you should use the Cake.CoreCLR package that contains cross platform Roslyn.

[thomaslevesque]

Ah, thanks. I'll give it a try.

[matkoch]

Is it possible to release this fix before all other issues for this milestone have been resolved? Things like auto-indention, drag&drop and auto debug can be easily workarounded. But with this feature missing, all developers are forced to write new, soon to be changed code. At least if they value the task runner explorer over invoking the script manually. #37 falls into the same category.

[agc93]

@matkoch If you look at the PR for this issue, you can check out the AppVeyor build and you can download the VSIX directly from the build artifacts to locally install to get this fix right away.

We're working on getting a CI build available using MyGet (you can track that over at #18/#48 ), but for now each PR builds a VSIX you can use to get the latest changes.