Install Addins, Tools, Modules to global packages folder

[bjorkstromm]

To avoid unnecessary installation of packages already located in global packages folder (e.g. ~/.nuget), we should install and consume packages from there. We could make it opt-in to start with.

One problem I see is tool resolution. We'd probably need a way to register search paths for installed tools. Then tool installer could register the path for the installed tool, located in global packages folder.

Module resolution might be tricky one... 😄

[EdinaLewis]

In my build setup I already use a global folder for tools, addins and modules. You can customize them with the cake command line args:
-paths_tools
-paths_addins
-paths_modules

I just configure them as part of my build.ps1 bootstrapper.

[augustoproiete]

Thanks for the note @EdinaLewis but this issue is about Cake leveraging THE global folder that NuGet itself uses/manages when you install/restore packages through NuGet (e.g. dotnet restore), not a custom folder that you define yourself which, as you described, is supported already