Better Support for Nuget Dependencies for Binary Modules

[aersam]

Port of PowerShell/PowerShell#15588

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Powershell Package Authoring in C#/.Net is a very unsatisfying task for anything that relies on complex Nuget Packages. As an example: It's nearby impossible to get a package working on Powershell Gallery that relies on the Nuget Package of the SQL Server Driver (Microsoft.Data.SqlClient). I have to reference platform specified dll's somehow and it requires a lot of code just to get that dll working. The SQL Server Module

In addition, as a Powershell package can only have dependencies from PowershellGallery (de-facto), it's common to include the .Net DLLs in the Package, see SqlServer Module for example. If two packages include the same dll's we have a conflict. As an example, the SqlServer Module mentioned uses Newtonsoft.Json which should be fairly common to include.

Proposed technical implementation details

I'd propose to support Nuget Dependencies directly in the Manifest Files (psd1).

[Matteo-T]

As the owner of the SQLServer module and due to my close proximity to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient folks, I really hope to see this addressed soon. :)

[aersam]

This made me move away from Powershell for almost everything. I code now everything with more than a few lines completely in C#. I would prefer to have generic .net dlls/nuget packages and use PowerShell for the Business Logic

[Viajaz]

What's the best practice workaround to this issue?