I wanted to say thanks for the work surrounding this issue. The
required patches were applied quickly. As well, even the more
difficult logging issue was handled in short order. Thanks for making
this happen!
Patrick Earl
On Aug 1, 1:07 am, Patrick Earl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The client profile has been around since .NET 3.5. The 3.5 profile
> allowed for a much smaller download for XP users. Now, with the
> advent of .NET 4, the client profile has become a first class citizen
> of the .NET world. The .NET 4 client profile is the only version
> of .NET being distributed automatically through Windows Update. As
> well, many project types in Visual Studio now automatically target the
> client profile. With such significant factors in place, I feel it is
> quite important that NHibernate make the few changes needed to support
> the client profile.
>
> I'm happy to contribute anything needed to make this happen. If I
> remember correctly, there are three main areas of incompatibility.
>
> 1. System.Data.OracleClient
> 2. System.Web
> 3. log4net
>
> I've already converted the Oracle driver to a reflection based driver,
> being a simple change. However, there's additional Oracle code in the
> form of the OracleClientCommandSet. Can anyone shed some light on the
> command set classes? I don't see anywhere that any interfaces or base
> classes (or anything really) is used. Additionally, I can't even see
> anything in Google pertaining to these classes. Are they dead code?
>
> My proposal for System.Web is to separate the web components into an
> NHibernate.Web assembly. The main assembly would still handle web-
> type configs by loading NHibernate.Web through reflection. The only
> change people would need to make is to reference NHibernate.Web if
> they make use of the provided web classes.
>
> For log4net, I propose that the work in NH-1554 be integrated. It
> seems like a good idea anyways, since people have different logging
> platform needs.
>
> Appreciate your thoughts. Looking forward to getting this important
> change in place.
>
> Patrick Earl
