Cement

• Dependency management tool, mainly for C# projects
• Allow getting and building your projects with dependencies
• Every project is a git repository
• Every project is a solution or a content module

Get started

Install

Windows

1. You should have git and Visual Studio or MSBuild Tools installed
2. Download zip from https://github.com/skbkontur/cement/releases/latest
3. Unzip and run dotnet\install.cmd
4. Restart terminal
5. Command cm shows you available commands in any directory
6. If you have installed Visual Studio 2017 in custom folder run set VS150COMNTOOLS=D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\Tools\ (with your custom foler path) in cmd.

macOS

1. You should have git installed
2. Download zip from https://github.com/skbkontur/cement/releases/latest
3. Unzip and run ./install.sh from the dotnet directory
4. Either add ~/bin/ to your PATH variable or run alias cm='~/bin/dotnet/cm.exe'
5. Run cm to see the list of commands

Linux

Here is a Dockerfile example of how to get Ubuntu image with cement installed

FROM ubuntu
RUN apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
RUN echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu xenial main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official.list
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y mono-devel git wget
RUN cd ~
RUN git clone https://github.com/skbkontur/cement.git ~/cement
RUN wget -O ~/cement/nuget.exe https://dist.nuget.org/win-x86-commandline/latest/nuget.exe
RUN mkdir ~/bin
RUN cd ~/cement && mono nuget.exe restore -OutputDir packages/ && msbuild /p:Configuration=Release
RUN mono ~/bin/dotnet/cm.exe reinstall

Work with cement

Use cm help to view all cement commands. Use cm %command_name% /? or cm help %command_name% to view command description.

All module descriptions are stored in a special git repo.

In the beginning your cement will use sample modules from https://github.com/skbkontur/cement-sample-modules/blob/master/modules

Command cm ls shows modules A, B, C, D.

Get modules

Let some commands run to get and build module A, which uses modules B, C, D.

cm init

All modules should be downloaded into one 'cement tracked' directory.

cm get A

Download module A with deps B, C, D.

cd A

Go to module directory.

cm build-deps

Build dependencies for current module in the right order.

cm build

Build current module. You can use it now.

Update dependencies

cm update-deps

Get latest versions of dependencies from git

cm build-deps

Need to build new version of modules, which were changed.

cm build

And current module.

Feature flags

Feature flags may be edit in config file '%USERPROFILE%/bin/dotnet/featureFlags.json'

Clean before build

Deleting all local changes before build in commands 'build' and 'build-deps' if project's TargetFramework is 'netstandardXX'

Default: false

Creating modules

1. Specify git repo witch will contain all module descriptions like https://github.com/skbkontur/cement-sample-modules

2. Add empty modules file to it and push

3. Fill it into %userprofile%\.cement\settings file instead of git@github.com:skbkontur/cement-sample-modules.git

4. Create repositories for your modules like

   https://github.com/skbkontur/cement-sample-A

   https://github.com/skbkontur/cement-sample-B

   https://github.com/skbkontur/cement-sample-C

   https://github.com/skbkontur/cement-sample-D

5. Run cm module add A git@github.com:skbkontur/cement-sample-A.git to add your modules to cement

6. Fill module.yaml file, describing cement modules (see appropriate documentation)

All commands description

here

Module.yaml format

here