Is there a Maven alternative or port for the .NET world?

Question

Is there a Maven alternative or port for the .NET world?

I would love to use a good dependency management system that the Java world has, but I don't find anything comparable for .NET projects...

Answer 1

NMaven has been the first/official effort to provide Apache Maven for .NET; the project failed to clear the high bar of requirements for an official Apache project and was retired from the Apache Incubator in November 2008. There have been several efforts to fork and survive the project, but only one of them (NPanday) managed to do so and has been able to rejoin the Apache Incubator in August 2010. Sadly also the NPanday project was retired in January 2015 because it is lacking active committers.

• Active projects (as of July 2015)

  • none
    
    

• Inactive projects (as of July 2015)

  • NMaven: Maven plugins that do .NET Builds.

  • Byldan: A .NET version of Maven. Written in C#.

  • NPanday: a project to integrate Apache Maven into .NET development environments.

Answer 2

NuGet (formerly called NuPack) addresses some of the features of Maven. You can read about it at Phil Haack, Scott Hanselman and, of course, Scott Guthrie.