Minimum versions: .NET Framework and .NET Core

[bradwilson]

I posted two Twitter polls, and here are the results/conclusions. Thanks to everybody who voted!

.NET Framework

I'm not surprised 4.7.2 beats 4.8. I am surprised how many people seem not to care about it at all.

Conclusion: There will be 4.7.2 support in initial release of v3. In the medium-term future, it will be dropped entirely.

.NET Core

I'm also not surprised that 3.1 dominates over 2.1. There is less than a year left on 2.1 support.

Conclusion: There will be 2.1 support in the initial release of v2. In the short-term future, it will be pushed forward to 3.1.

Also worth noting: since .NET 5 will not be an LTS, it's unlikely that we would push forward with that as a minimum; it's more likely that we would push forward to .NET 6 instead.

Feedback welcome!

[fahadabdulaziz]

Hi,
Please keep support for .NET Framework (4.7.2) for at least a year (Until .NET 6 be released), we use WinForms but not planning to upgrade to .NET 5 due not mature migration of WinForms. and I think there a many many companies sill use it with xUnit.

A side note, I think these results not a accurate, xUnit download at nuget are 94 million let's say the users are 1 million and the voters are only 363! :-)

[bradwilson]

Obviously the vote represents people on Twitter. We need to get GitHub to do polls. 😄

Keeping .NET Framework until at least .NET 6 makes a lot of sense.

[marco-carvalho]

@bradwilson please keep support for .NET Framework 4.8, we use WinForms but not planning to upgrade to .NET Core because of massive work it requires