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[Feature] Packaging FSX files as standalone application
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
FSX as a scripts sometimes grow to size where they are neither programs, nor simple scripts. Something which you want to show to your manager, or even give you some other employees. Because they are small, you really don't want to have overhead of project for managing these apps.
Describe the solution you'd like
Example usage
dotnet fsi myscript.fsx --publish --self-contained
You may even try NativeAOT this way
dotnet fsi myscript.fsx --publish --self-contained -r win-x64 /p:PublishAot=true
Concidentally this is good way to test for stale FSX files which has broken paths to references here and there.
I think this can fill some gap F# usage.
Additional context
As prototype I have very simple tool
dotnet tool install --global FSharpPacker
fspack FSharpPacker.Tests\Samples\LoadFile.fsx --self-contained -o test
test\LoadFile.exe
https://github.com/kant2002/FSharpPacker/
I'm a big F# script fan, I have dozens of gists with graphs/visualization/automation/user deletion/sso creation/etc
And I share those scripts often enough to feel the pain that the other side must have a dotnet-sdk installed (not even a runtime!)
That feature would allow me to share my work with colleagues without
- me converting every file to a project
- them installing dotnet-sdk
