Cake.Build doesn't generate description for nuget and non-sdk projecs

[DmitryLukyanov]

have quite simple nuget package creating logic with cake.build:

        var nugetSettings = new NuGetPackSettings
        {
            OutputDirectory = "%some_path%",
            Verbosity = NuGetVerbosity.Detailed,
            Description = "oops, description",
            Version = "2.0.0"
        };

        context.NuGetPack("%project_path%", nugetSettings);

It generates nuget package and set expected version, but the description value is ignored. This is what I still see in ClassLibrary1.2.0.0.nupkg:

Target framework:

   <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.5.2</TargetFrameworkVersion>

Description value is not appeared in the package metadata even if I manually add Description property to the .csproj file like:

   <Description>asd</Description>

This question is continuation of the discussion from here . It looks like Description even in theory can't be filled in this case? If so, why Description field does exist?

[nils-a]

The short answer is that NuGetPack (like nuget.exe) has two very distinct usages: One operating on a project file and one operating on a .nuspec file and not all settings that are available in the NuGetPackSettings are used for both usages.

I created #4295 to track that issue.

[DmitryLukyanov]

How to know which of these ways I use when I run NuGetPack?

[nils-a]

Well, if you call NuGetPack with the first parameter pointing to a .csproj/.vbproj/.fsproj you are using the "project" way. For every other file we assume the file is a .nuspec file.