Re: NUnit Version Numbering

Kamil Skalski wrote:
> > Because I knew that this might cause special problems with mono, I posted on
> > the mono-devel list, as well as here. So far, there has been no feedback. I
> > stay in touch with a number of the Mono developers and I'll adjust what I'm
> > doing when I have better info about what Mono needs.
>
> Mono developers seem to use mostly the 1.1 profile and didn't take the
> problem too seriously so far. But from time to time people got into
> problem. Basically it is caused by the fact that mono installs
> nunit.*.dll into the GAC and the current versioning schema do not
> allow using separate GAC entries for 1.1 and 2.0 compiled nunit
> assemblies.
>
> I like your idea of removing nunit dll from the gac at all, of course
> if everything would still work fine.
>
> Currently there is a mono bug for the issue and I hope it will
> eventually be resolved and things would work with mono:
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=76928

Sorry I didn't chime in sooner -- this problem (I wrote the mono bug you 
are referencing) would be fixed by having a different build identifier 
for .NET 2.0 versions of NUnit. You mentioned the different version in 
the bug, but another possibility would be to name things differently. 
That is, the 1.x build remains nunit-* and the 2.x build would be nunit2-*.

I think mono needs to continue "shipping" with nunit so that users can 
run mono's own unit tests to test the class libraries and whatnot. Also, 
it makes for a nice OOTB experience IMO :)

Right now for them to run their .NET 2.x assembly tests, they have a 
.NET 2.x-compiled nunit binary in their source tree that does not get 
installed. I was able to "workaround" in a real PIA fashion to get the 
above bug to not show up.

Anyways,
there's my 2p :)


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