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tryphotino / photino.NET

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Self-contained Single File #34

Closed kevinjpetersen closed 3 years ago

kevinjpetersen commented 3 years ago

Since .NET 5 and .NET 6 still doesn't have a fully self-contained single file yet (while .NET Core 3.0/3.1 does) would you consider making Photino work with .NET Core 3.0/3.1 also so people has the option to get a fully self-contained single file application?

Or is there other plans for this?

ottodobretsberger commented 3 years ago

There are no plans to migrate Photino back to Core 3, and while we haven't actually tried and/or tested single file deployment in .NET 5 ourselves yet, it appears -according to MS documentation- that the single file application features from 3.0 have been enhanced in .NET 5 and should still be available:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/single-file

kevinjpetersen commented 3 years ago

@ottodobretsberger While .NET 5/6 does have Single File deployment, they're not a true Single File as it still requires a few other files which are built together with it, to run.

While .NET Core 3.0/3.1 is a single file only.

ottodobretsberger commented 3 years ago

We do not consider backward compatibility to 3.0 or 3.1 at this point. The overhead in changes would be too much to efficiently keep up with. There are planned changes for .NET5/6 in that regard though, so we're hopeful to see true single file deployment again.