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:cake: Cake (C# Make) is a cross platform build automation system.
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OriginalCake
Cake (C# Make) is a build automation system with a C# DSL to do things like compiling code, copy files/folders, running unit tests, compress files and build NuGet packages.
| Runner | Latest Released | Latest Develop |
|---|---|---|
| Cake .NET Tool | ||
| Cake Frosting | ||
| Cake SDK |
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Documentation
You can read the latest documentation at https://cakebuild.net/.
For a simple example to get started see Setting up a new project.
Contributing
So you’re thinking about contributing to Cake? Great! It’s really appreciated.
Make sure you've read the contribution guidelines before sending that epic pull request. You'll also need to sign the contribution license agreement (CLA) for anything other than a trivial change. NOTE: The .NET Foundation CLA Bot will provide a link to this CLA within the PR that you submit if it is deemed as required.
- Fork the repository.
- Create a branch to work in.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Don't forget the unit tests.
- Send a pull request.
Get in touch
License
Copyright © .NET Foundation, Patrik Svensson, Mattias Karlsson, Gary Ewan Park, Alistair Chapman, Martin Björkström, Dave Glick, Pascal Berger, Jérémie Desautels, Enrico Campidoglio, C. Augusto Proiete, Nils Andresen, and contributors.
Cake is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.
- For Roslyn, see https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/master/License.txt
- For Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection, see https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/LICENSE.TXT
- For Spectre.Console, see https://github.com/spectreconsole/spectre.console/blob/main/LICENSE.md
- For NuGet.Core, see https://github.com/NuGet/Home/blob/dev/LICENSE.txt
Thanks
A big thank you has to go to JetBrains who provide each of the Cake Developers with an Open Source License for ReSharper that helps with the development of Cake.
Sponsors
Our wonderful sponsors:
Backers
Our wonderful backers:
Code of Conduct
This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.
Contribution License Agreement
By signing the CLA, the community is free to use your contribution to .NET Foundation projects.
.NET Foundation
This project is supported by the .NET Foundation.
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