Support for NuGet package.config and/or package restore for references.

[CZEMacLeod]

I have a script which requires Newtonsoft.Json - In my case it is also used by the project that contains the script but this should not be a pre-requisite.
At the moment I am using #r "..\\bin\\Debug\\Newtonsoft.Json.dll" but this obviously only works after the build has been done once and not on a CI server. I am not currently using the project's packages path as if I update the package it will break the script.
I suggest that either a local packages.config gets parsed and restored relative to the script and using that, or a pre-processing of the csx occurs to replace package references with dll references.
e.g. #r "{Newtonsoft.Json}" -> #r "C:\\...\\packages\\Newtonsoft.Json.8.0.3\\lib\\net45\\Newtonsoft.Json.dll" assuming that there is a packages.config entry or MSBuild ItemGroup or other mechanism to define <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="8.0.3" targetFramework="net452" />

[daveaglick]

I totally agree - this would be really helpful. I was hoping it was on the roadmap for native Roslyn scripting functionality, and it looks like it is, but not until 2.0. Since we don't know when that's due, I may have to add it directly (for now). I'm going to see if I can get some feedback on what the Roslyn implementation will look like and copy that so we can rip it out of Scripty once it's in Roslyn.

[daveaglick]

For reference, (I think) this is being tracked as dotnet/roslyn#6900

[DamianReeves]

Maybe you can look at how cake does their nuget directive