Christian Weiss created THRIFT-4541:
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Summary: Use new project system in "lib/csharp" and define
supported platforms
Key: THRIFT-4541
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4541
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: C# - Library
Reporter: Christian Weiss
As discussed in THRIFT-4535, it would be great if we could update "lib/csharp"
to use the new "csproj" project system. This will allow us to target multiple
platforms and the new ".NET Standard" with a single project.
It's possible to support pretty much every platform there is with this new
project format (see e.g.
[Newtonsoft.Json|https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json/blob/master/Src/Newtonsoft.Json/Newtonsoft.Json.csproj]),
however supporting older platforms requires more work as this requires more
#if statements etc.
This means that we have to decide which platforms we want to support!
Targeting ".NET Standard 2.0" would be the easiest option as this versionÂ
[covers a much larger API
surface|https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/08/14/announcing-net-standard-2-0/].
However, this would also mean that people have to use rather recent versions
of their platforms to use it, as .NET Standard 2.0 requires the following
minimum versions:
* .NET 4.6.1 (adding support for .NET 4.5 is no problem though)
* .NET Core 2.0
* Mono 5.4
* Xamarin.iOS 10.14
* Xamarin.Mac 3.8
* Xamarin.Android 8.0
* UWP 10.0.16299
I will create a PR that targets .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 4.5 to show what the
new project files would look like. If the approach is OK for you in general,
then I can try to add support for whatever minimum versions you'd like to
support.
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