[NPANDAY-462] Add plugin to support ILMerge similar to shade plugin for Java

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0-incubating
• Component/s: Maven Plugins

Environment

>mvn -v
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 12:16:01-0700)
Java version: 1.6.0_24
Java home: C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.6.0_24\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 7" version: "6.1" arch: "amd64" Family: "windows"

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: John Robert Fallows
• Created: 20/Aug/11 01:11
• Updated: 02/May/12 04:44
• Resolved: 20/Aug/11 01:13

Description

ILMerge is a Microsoft tool that can merge together multiple .NET assemblies into a single .NET assemblies and optionally internalize the public APIs that are not intended to be exposed by the output merged assembly.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mbarnett/ILMerge.aspx

ILMerge is delivered as a native binary raising issues on non-Windows platforms. However, a pure .NET implementation called ILRepack is available and designed to be command-line flag compatible with ILMerge.

http://code.google.com/p/il-repack/

A plugin for ilmerge, with the ability to swap in ilrepack as a replacement executable, would provide cross platform, shade-like functionality for a .NET codebase built with NPanday.