On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 10:45:14 -0500 Chris Capon <ttab...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: libnunit-framework2.6.3-cil
> Version: 2.6.3+dfsg-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When a .NET project that references the nunit.framework is compiled, the
> specific version number, culture and public key token are built in to the
> application.
>
> If that specific version is not found in the GAC when the application
is run,
> it will fail.
>
> When considering source code portability between systems, projects that
> reference specific versions of the nunit.framework can also not be
compiled if
> that version is not found.
>
> Under Windows, it is possible to have many different versions of NUnit
> installed concurrently in the GAC by installing from the many packages
> available on NUnit.org download site.
>
> With Debian (Testing), only the latest version is provided (currently
2.6.3).
> This places a requirement on all .NET applications to be compiled
with the same
> nunit.framework reference. In addition, that reference must be
updated with
> each major release of the framework.
>
> Since different applications may reference different versions of the
> nunit.framework, it should be possible to install multiple versions
of the
> nunit.framework.
>
> Would it be possible to provide an installation package for each of the
> historical versions of the NUnit framework in addition to the most
current?
> This way package references do not need to be changed unnecessarily.
>
> It is also significant that these historical versions must all register
> references in the GAC which are compatible with their matching
releases on
> NUnit.org.
This is actually a huge amount of work. In the general case, I'd suggest
using NuGet for including NUnit in your own projects, rather than
relying on what's in the distribution - we cannot rely on internet
connectivity when building packages, so need to have packages, but we
try to avoid packaging libraries we don't use in applications, and
multiple parallel versions of NUnit would certainly come under that heading.
