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Introduction

This is part of the dNAN project.

The dNAN console allows to download, compile and install dNAN packages trough a simple text interfaces. This is pre-release documentation.

General Description

The dNAN console is a .NET program capable to receive simple commands wrapping the dNAN.Backend libraries.

The dNAN console is accessible trough

mono dnan.exe

or just typing

dnan

Commands

You can type the simple commands to execute simple tasks.

Help

The help command lists all the commands available and a short description.

Get

The get command downloads a specific package from a mirror. For example:

dnan> get Foo

This command will get the package "Foo" from a mirror.

Compile

The package will be compiled. The resulting assembly or assemblies will be stored in the cache.

dnan> compile Foo

Install

There are currently two install commands: install-current and install-gac. With both commands, the package will be downloaded and compiled if this didn't happen before.

install-current

This command will install a package in the current directory.

dnan> install-current Foo

install-gac

This command will register a package in the GAC.

dnan> install-gac Foo

Exit

This command will terminate the dNAN console

dnan> exit

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