We use the normal dotnet-tools.json
for setting up our dotnet local tools for our project but was wondering if there is a way to use wild card versions for the version numbers like you can do within csprojs with package references?
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="5.0.0-rc.1.*" />
I've tried changing the dotnet-tools.json
to the following:
{
"version": 1,
"isRoot": true,
"tools": {
"dotnet-ef": {
"version": "5.0.0-rc.1.*",
"commands": [
"dotnet-ef"
]
}
}
}
However running dotnet tool restore
gives the following error
Invalid manifest file. Path C:\dev\x\x.api\.config\dotnet-tools.json:
In package dotnet-ef:
Version 5.0.0-rc.1.* is invalid.
Locating where error message originated in code, you can see that the version parsing is done by NugetVersion.TryParse which only allow semver-strings.
So it isn't possible to add wildcards.