Publish as .NET Core Global Tool

[snebjorn]

With the upcoming release of dotnet core 2.1 they're introducing global tools. It works like NPM global tools (npm install -g package)

That would a nice alternative way to install MiniCover. So instead of having a tools project you can simply do dotnet install tool -g minicover

[nlowe]

It looks like some work will need to be done to support installation as a global tool, the existing package cannot be installed as a global tool:

$ dotnet tool install -g minicover --version 2.0.0-ci-20180517205544
error NU1212: Invalid project-package combination for MiniCover 2.0.0-ci-20180517205544. DotnetToolReference project style can only contain references of the DotnetTool type 
The tool package could not be restored.
Tool 'minicover' failed to install. This failure may have been caused by:

* You are attempting to install a preview release and did not use the --version option to specify the version.
* A package by this name was found, but it was not a .NET Core tool.
* The required NuGet feed cannot be accessed, perhaps because of an Internet connection problem.
* You mistyped the name of the tool.

[jinhong-]

This would be super useful, especially for configuring build servers. It looks quite simple to implement:
https://www.meziantou.net/2018/06/11/how-to-publish-a-dotnet-global-tool-with-net-core-2-1
Just need to add 2 lines into the .csproj

   <PackAsTool>true</PackAsTool>
   <ToolCommandName>MyDotNetCoreTool</ToolCommandName>

Although, this will break compatibility with the older releases

[SirDragonClaw]

Has there been any movement on this issue?

[lucaslorentz]

No Daniel, I didn't work on it yet.
Have you tried https://github.com/tonerdo/coverlet ?
It seems to be a better alternative nowadays.

[lucaslorentz]

Fixed on version v3.0.0-alpha-1