Add commands to enable listing/installing/uninstalling/updating project tools

[DamianEdwards]

To add a tool to a project, the "tools" section of the project.json file must be manually edited. This isn't great for IDE scenarios where installation of tools on-demand based on UI gestures is required, e.g. managing tools from the NuGet dialog, on-demand install of the Razor tooling services from the Razor editor. IDEs should not have to edit the project.json to do this.

We'd like to add the aforementioned feature to the Razor editor in VS for RTM but we're blocked by this.

Ultimately these commands would just delegate through to nuget.

E.g.

dotnet install-tool dotnet-razor-tooling
dotnet uninstall-tool dotnet-razor-tooling
dotnet list-tools

[davidfowl]

Compound command names kinda suck, should be:

dotnet tool install
dotnet tool uninstall
dotnet tool list

Either tool or tools.

[DamianEdwards]

Not disagreeing, I was just following what appeared to be spec'ed for package management already #4338

[blackdwarf]

@DamianEdwards yeah, that one (#76) will most likely change back to just dotnet install. Of course, then we will have the discussion about what it means. :)

Excuse my dumbness, but why wouldn't dotnet install, that is, "simple" package install work for this?

[TheRealPiotrP]

dotnet-install would have no way of knowing if this is a stand-alone tool package or a project dependency. It is, however, basically the same tech...

dotnet-install --tool(s)?

[blackdwarf]

@piotrpMSFT got it. The problem with an option to dotnet install would be that you need multiple actions, so it could get unwieldy, i.e. dotnet install --tool --list or dotnet install --tool list.

[TheRealPiotrP]

yea, I'm just throwing out the option. It's an N*M matrix no matter how we slice it.

[tthiery]

Npm does npm install grunt --save-dev ... And the category is called devDependencies within the json.

[shanselman]

Still waiting on this, and now it's over at NuGet/Home#4901

[livarcocc]

Closing as this is now done for global/local tools.