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    copied!<p>I have a <a href="http://nuget.org/List/Packages/Humpback" rel="nofollow">console application that is available via nuget</a> or <a href="https://github.com/jasonmw/Humpback" rel="nofollow">on it's own</a>. It gets installed into the tools directory for the NuGet package. The application requires 3 pieces of 'configuration' information.</p> <ul> <li>a database connection string </li> <li>a folder path </li> <li>one more configuration option (string) </li> </ul> <p>Currently, I store these configuration values in a text file right next to the exe in a file called settings.js, serialized as json. </p> <p>When the application first runs, if the file is not present, it creates one with default values.</p> <p>I keep the settings.js file in this location so the file will get checked into source control.</p> <p>My question is about maintaining the settings file across versions. If you Update-Package via nuget, everything works great, except the new version doesn't have any settings i had configured, because there is a new folder created for the new version.</p> <p>I have written a powershell script to run in init.ps1 to pull the settings from the last version of the package, and seems to work. However this feels kinda dirty and I am wondering if there is a better way to solve this problem when using nuget to deliver my application.</p> <pre><code>param($installPath, $toolsPath, $package) Set-Alias hump (Join-Path $toolsPath hump.exe) $sorted_list = new-object system.collections.SortedList $parent_path = Join-Path $installPath ".." foreach($f in Get-ChildItem $parent_path -Filter Humpback* | Foreach {$_.FullName}){ $sorted_list.Add($f,$f) } if($sorted_list.Count -gt 1){ $old_path = $sorted_list.Values[$sorted_list.Count - 2] $new_path = Join-Path $installPath "tools" $current_settings = Join-Path $new_path "settings.js" $has_current_settings = Test-Path $current_settings if($has_current_settings -eq $false){ $old_settings = Join-Path $old_path "tools\settings.js" Copy-Item $old_settings $new_path } } </code></pre> <p>Also, init.ps1 doesn't appear to run when installing a package using the command line tool (nuget.exe). Is this expected behavior?</p>
 

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