Duplicate Checking of Addins

[gep13]

With the new functionality that is provided by AddinDiscoverer to update and maintain the YAML files on the Cake Website, I think we have to start thinking about detecting duplicate addins.

For example, we have this:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Aws.ElasticBeanstalk/

and this:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Aws.ElasticBeanstalk.Dev/1.3.4-Dev

The second is clearly a duplicate of the first, and as such, I don't think it should be included. Ideally, this would be flagged, with an action for someone to follow up to try to figure out what is going on.

[Jericho]

What would be the logic to determine that two nuget packages are potential duplicates?

Some ideas:

• the name of the packages are "similar" (define similar)
• they contain assemblies with the exact same name

[Jericho]

By the way, the example you gave (Cake.Aws.ElasticBeanstalk vs Cake.Aws.ElasticBeanstalk.Dev) would be avoided if we excluded prerelease packages since Cake.Aws.ElasticBeanstalk.Dev is marked as prerelease.