Shawn Black <endo...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote on 12/16/2020 12:02:33 AM:
>
> I wanted to get some feedback on the current state of .NET within the
> OpenWhisk ecosystem.
>
> Right now, we support .NET Core 2.2 (not LTS and no longer supported)
> and .NET Core 3.1 (LTS).
>
> .NET 5.0 was recently released, but I would like to skip supporting this
> version as it is not an LTS release.
>
> I think it would make more sense to wait for .NET 6.0, which will be an
> LTS release.
>
> Once that is out, we can add support for it and then deprecate .NET 2.2.
>
> The .NET Core 3.1 runtime supports running .NET Core 2.2 binaries (we
> have a unit test to support this).
>
Hi Shawn,
Probably an imperfect comparison, but for Node.js we've only been
putting out runtimes for LTS releases and deprecating/removing them fairly
quickly when the LTS support period ends.
.NET seems to be on a slower cadence (LTS release only every 2 years
vs. 1 year for Node.js).
--dave
