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hanssens / localstorage

LocalStorage for .NET - A simple and lightweight tool for persisting data in dotnet (core) apps.
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Support for .NET 4.5 #20

Closed Fredz66 closed 6 years ago

Fredz66 commented 6 years ago

Would it be possible to support .NET 4.5 or is there an incompatibility that requires .NET 4.6 ?

hanssens commented 6 years ago

In theory it could be done. The only external dependency is Newtonsoft.Json, which also has support for the older frameworks.

However, in terms of "supporting it" I'm a bit reluctant to do so. Reason is that Microsoft itself phased out support for .NET 4.5.1 (and lower). I'm planning to upgrade the library to netstandard2, at which time I'd like to investigate if there are any blocking reasons that prevent targeting .NET 4.5 as well. It will be on an "as is" level if there are no showstoppers.

hanssens commented 6 years ago

You triggered me, so at an off moment I'm currently working on the upgrade to netstandard 2.0 and to put it simply: Microsoft Docs recommends only targeting .NET 4.6.1 or higher. Also the docs on the .NET Implementation Support mention the same.

So sorry, @Fredz66 but I will not support for .NET 4.5 due to this. However, there is nothing stopping you from creating a fork if you really require it.

Fredz66 commented 6 years ago

Ok, thanks for the effort anyway.