Evaluate and estimate port to .NET Core

Kittyfisto / Tailviewer

Open source log file viewer

https://kittyfisto.github.io/Tailviewer/

MIT License

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Evaluate and estimate port to .NET Core #186

Open Kittyfisto opened 5 years ago

Kittyfisto commented 5 years ago

Pros:

Take advantage of .NET 5 once available
One step closer to running on Linux/MacOS

Cons:

Takes time away from other features

Kittyfisto commented 5 years ago

The following dependencies need to be ported to .NET Standard or .NET Core:

Tailviewer:

[x] MMQ
[x] PE
[x] System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions
[ ] Metrolib
[x] FluentAssertions.Extensions
[ ] WpfUnit

Tailviewer plugin repository:

[ ] IsabelDb
[ ] SharpRemote

Kittyfisto commented 5 years ago

A port to .net core makes sense only after .net core 3 has been released: It claims to support WPF (at least on windows) and will allow us to build a single executable which can be deployed anywhere. It would probably be quite chunky (30-60mb), however would allow tailviewer to be used anywhere without having to install .net framework (think Windows Embedded systems, etc...)

jumar commented 1 year ago

Hi @Kittyfisto! Thanks for your great work.

Is there anything I could do to help for the migration? how big is the task?