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Jens Geyer commented on THRIFT-4535:
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Folks stuck needing to support older frameworks like .NET 3.5.1 can continue to
use Thrift 0.11.0 or earlier. We shouldn't be scared to drop older language
support because folks can continue to use older Thrift to make it work. One
can use Thrift 0.7.0 client with a Thrift 0.11.0 server, for example, if it
were truly necessary to support some ancient language level. So if you are
using an older CentOS with an older mono, you might need to use an older
thrift. That's reasonable.
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I wasn't saying that. I was not saying that we should never drop support for
older versions, quite the opposite. What i I was saying is, that we should be
careful with that decision. There are people out there who are using
interesting combintaions of tools. It's easy to say "I know what the majority
of users is doing" but it may a) simply wrong, and b) even a minority of 5% are
still quite a lot of users. We should absolutlely think about what versions we
plan to support with the next release and e.g. drop Net < 4.5 if that makes
sense. I'm for it, everything less to support can be one special case less. But
I don't want to find myself in a shitstorm because we overlooked something not
being supported on CentOS, and you don't want either, believe me. And yes, I
picked that example very carefully and intentional.
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This is all FOSS, so the notion of being "supported" at all is a best-effort
community driven exercise.
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Correct.
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Should I work on "csharp" and "modernize" it by taking stuff from "netcore"?
Has this already been tried and failed, resulting in the decision to create the
new, distinct, "netcore" code base?
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+1 .
In fact, that's a nobrainer decision. The csharp part was there long before
netcore (and it was the origin of it), so netcore should be the victim and be
merged over to csharp. And please, try to not scare people with whatever
"modernize" means exactly, and have an eye on compatibility. Nobody wants to
rewrite the whole application just because of an RPC library update.
> Current state and future of .NET libraries ("csharp" and "netcore")?
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> Key: THRIFT-4535
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4535
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Question
> Components: C# - Library, netcore - Library
> Reporter: Christian Weiss
> Priority: Major
>
> Hi,
> We are trying to use Thrift in one of our projects but we ran into some very
> fundamental issues:
> * The "csharp" project does not target ".NET Standard" and there's only a
> very old release on nuget.org ( if [https://www.nuget.org/packages/Thrift/]
> is the official one).
> * The "netcore" project does target ".NET Standard" but there's no release
> yet ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4512 ) and it also has a
> dependency on ASP.NET Core (
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4534 ) which makes it unusable
> in non-web projects.
> I'm wondering why there even are 2 separate projects for .NET? It's important
> to understand that ".NET Core" is not a new programming API - It's just a new
> platform - very similar to Silverlight, Mono, Windows Phone. This means that
> it would also be possible to support .NET Core and the new ".NET Standard"
> (which represents a common set of APIs for all platforms) with the existing
> "csharp" project.
> Was this a deliberate decision - e.g. to make the "netcore" code the official
> successor of the "csharp" code?
> Would you be interested in merging the code back into one library? I'd be
> willing to help if you want!
> It would be great to get one proper, up to date and official .NET library
> soon as there's already quite a lot of weird forks on NuGet.org:
> https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=Thrift
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