[dotNetRDF-Develop] What .Net profiles should we support going forward?

[Rob V. <rv...@do...>]

Hi All

So the discussions in the last week or two about issues with NuGet
dependency conflicts involving Json.Net highlights that our choice of .Net
profiles is somewhat behind the times.  The Json.Net folks have moved to
only supporting standard .Net plus PCL I.e. they¹ve dropped Windows Phone
and Silverlight specific builds

The problem for us is this means we can¹t upgrade dependencies for our
Windows Phone and Silverlight builds so first question is should we drop
those builds entirely?  Particularly since we¹re targeting deprecated
versions of those platforms (Windows Phone 7) in some cases.

The next problem is that our PCL build targets an older PCL profile that no
longer aligns with Json.Net so we can¹t upgrade dependencies for that build
either currently.  So the second question is should we update our PCL
profile to align with more recent profiles?  For reference the current
Json.Net builds support the following PCL profiles:

* portable-net40+sl5+wp80+win8+monotouch+monoandroid
* portable-net45+wp80+win8
Would there be any objections to moving our PCL targets to align with these?

Another longer term point, on the 1.9 branch I¹m already working on
modularising the code so some of the new modules will no longer need to be
Full Profile since they won¹t need anything not in Client Profile.
Therefore I¹m also thinking we should start to only target Client Profile
where possible which will require fewer builds to be maintained

What do people think of these ideas?

Cheers,

Rob