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ekolis / stars-nova

Clone of the classic 4X game Stars!. Fork of original svn repo on SourceForge.
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Upgrade to .NET 5 #57

Open ekolis opened 3 years ago

ekolis commented 3 years ago

Describe the feature you'd like to see Upgrade this game from .NET Framework 4.x or whatever it's running under now to .NET 5.

Benefits Not much benefit for players, might improve performance slightly if we're lucky, but it would mean we can use all the cool new C# 9 features like record types, nullable reference types, enhanced pattern matching, and so on.

Describe alternatives It's .NET 5, not really many alternatives there besides maybe switching to .NET Core 3.1, but that's entirely supplanted by .NET 5 anyway. Mono or Unity, perhaps?

Additional context One potential problem is, if I'm not mistaken WinForms apps targeting .NET 5 will not run in Mono, so we could be losing Linux/Mac compatibility until someone fixes that or a future version of .NET makes WinForms cross-platform.

ekolis commented 3 years ago

I made some progress on this, but for some reason when I try to start a new game, the serializer crashes complaining that the mineral packet hull's "AllocatedComponent", whatever that is, is null...