[rabbitmq-discuss] Would like to start merging .NET client for WinRT (Windows 8 Store App) with mainline code

Mon Jun 9 23:18:50 BST 2014

On 10 June 2014 at 01:48:41, Nathan Brown (nathan at nkbrown.us) wrote:
> > > Good question. If WinRT is an incompatible target, does it 
> mean
> > there should be 2 packages, X and X-winrt, for example?
> 
> Different platform DLLs go in a named folders inside of the NuGet 
> package. Everything is delivered together and Visual Studio 
> links to the correct DLL. If it was possible to build the NuGet 
> package as part of the CI process, that would be the best. Currently 
> the NuGet creation lives elsewhere and is manually populated 
> with the release binaries.

I'll ask our NuGet package maintainer to chime in. I suspect it's time to
open source the code used for NuGet packaging ;)

> > Is it technically possible to run the current NUnit test suite 
> > on WinRT? Protocol configuration is removed in default and 
> 3.4 will only
> > support one protocol (0-9-1). Do we still need to worry about 
> using MSTest
> > then?
> 
> NUnit was able to test it without the configuration part. I can 
> remove that and remove all the MSTest changes. The test runner 
> then works as a desktop process (on Windows 8/Server 2012).

Excellent!

> > If your branch is in Mercurial or Git somewhere, we can work on 
> it until it's
> > mostly done, then create a bug and pull it into the mainline. 
> 
> Anyone can pull it from Bitbucket(https://bitbucket.org/nathanbrown/rabbitmq-dotnet-client) 
> right now. I can continue to work there.

Lets do that. A public Mercurial repo is all we care about when it's time
to merge.
-- 
MK 

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ