Wildcards

[petermorlion]

It would be nice if we could have wildcards in the exclusion or inclusion parameters. So you could execute something like this:

dotnet consolidate -s Something.sln -p MyCompany.*

This would then check specifically for packages that start with MyCompany., for example MyCompany.DAL, MyCompany.Logging, etc.

Would this be possible?

[Piedone]

We'd use this to exclude our own packages in the build of the root solution of our main meta project collecting our open-source projects while running full consolidation in the solution where our NuGet packages are tested. The rationale here would be that if you release an alpha NuGet for MyLibrary to use it in an alpha of MyPlugin1, then you don't need to also release MyPlugin2 and MyPlugin3 which also depend on MyLibrary. I.e, updating dependencies at the root of the dependency chain doesn't cause a cascading necessity of updates.

Related: #46

[Piedone]

@olsh would this or #46 be easier and more useful?

[Piedone]

Hmm, thinking a bit more about this, in our use-case, we only want to exclude those packages of us from consolidation, that are alpha versions. I've opened a new issue for this: #47