ILSpy doesn't respect the NUGET_PACKAGES environment variable

[geeknoid]

I just installed a fresh machine, and I used the latest .NET 8 rc2 SDK. Doing so, my nuget package cache ended up in c:.tools.nuget instead of the prior ~/.nuget which was previously customary. The environment contains a NUGET_PACKAGES environment variable that points to this new location and is respected by the .NET tooling.

ILSpy however hardcodes its lookup to ~/.nuget as seen here:

ILSpy/ICSharpCode.Decompiler/Metadata/DotNetCorePathFinder.cs

Line 63 in d2d1c33

Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.UserProfile), ".nuget", "packages")

Would it be possible to add support for the NUGET_PACKAGES environment variable?

Thanks.

[christophwille]

Relevant docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/cli-reference/cli-ref-environment-variables "Specified as absolute path."

[geeknoid]

FYI, as a workaround, I created an NTFS junction from ~/.nuget to c:\.tools\.nuget and that made ILSpy happy.