Breaking Change Disscussion: .NET 4.5 Support

Currently ExtendedXmlSerializer supports .NET Framework 4.5.

This is not ideal as it essentially forces two builds for every release: .NET 4.5 and everything else.

I wanted to start a discussion around this if anyone is still using .NET 4.5 and if this is used in any capacity with ExtendedXmlSerializer.

The idea is that we could bump the ExtendedXmlSerializer package to 2.2.x and make ExtendedXmlSerializer a strictly .NET Standard 2.0 library, which would support 4.6.1 as a minimum baseline.

If you absolutely require 4.5, you would have to force your dependency to the last version of ExtendedXmlSerializer 2.1.x (and pray you don’t run into any bugs).

I am open to discussion around this and welcome any comments. Speak now or forever hold your peace. 😆

[WojciechNagorski]

https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2019/Feb/19/Using-NET-Standard-with-Full-Framework-NET

[Mike-E-angelo]

Dang, a better memory than I @MagicAndre1981! So essentially we become a .NETStandard-only library at this time, I would take it. I’m OK with this as it would greatly simplify our test suite. Still feels a little wrong chopping it all away, though.

I guess technically that’s a non-issue. Conceivably, we would bump the major version (4.0.0), so those who still need to use .NET Framework can still use the 3.x found on nuget.

In any case, please do feel free to open a new issue around that time and we can take it from there. 👍