When publishing packages please enable/support Source Link

[s6o]

I'm a newbie when comes .NET and F# ecosystems and I've just been playing around with various things.

An annoying discovery compared to Flutter/Dart stack is that on many F# FOSS packages it not possible to look at the source directly from the IDE.

E.g. was playing around with https://github.com/dsyme/guido-learns-fsharp in VSCode and wanted to "drill down" to actual Remoting.* source, but no luck.

The good news seems to be that this behavior is actually supported in the .NET ecosystem, but would need to be enabled when publishing packages. References:

• https://youtu.be/i3qEhwcG7ps?t=11568 (feature demo in VSCode, .NET Conf: Focus on F#)
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/library-guidance/sourcelink
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/producing-packages-with-source-link/

The (obvious) benefits of Source Link enabled packages:

• the code is the basic/fundamental documentation
• improved discovery and learning

[Zaid-Ajaj]

Hi there @s6o thanks for reporting the issue! Adding SourceLink support sounds like a nice addition to remoting, I will look into it very soon