put paket.references inside msbuild project for .net sdk projects

[enricosada]

Atm with #1977 the core3paket.csproj.references file is used to add packages ref on restore, like before.

I think the references can be included inside the fsproj:

<ItemGroup>
    <PaketReference>Newtonsoft.Json</PaketReference>
<ItemGroup>

or as property separated by ; (easier for merge, like TargetFrameworks)

<PropertyGroup>
    <PaketReference>Newtonsoft.Json;log4net</PaketReference>
<PropertyGroup>

And remove the need for a core3paket.csproj.references (one file less), so all project files are self-contained

On dotnet restore, the paket target will:

• will read the PaketReference items/property
• create an obj\core3paket.csproj.references (inside obj dir)
• and call paket passing full path of obj\core3paket.csproj.references instead of infer location is near the .csproj

Like that the paket support seems more first class (like PackageReference), the csproj/fsproj is not verbose, and conditional based on framework or other is normal sintax ( Condition="'$(TargetFramework)' == 'net46'" ) already used for defined/props/packages

[forki]

I'm bit undecided on that right now. I'm not completely against it but I would wait a bit.

[enricosada]

Closing, hard to implement correctly, different than current usage and no big gains atm