[THRIFT-309] Thrift should run on plain .NET 2.0 and compatible Mono, with no additional dependencies

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.1
• Component/s: C# - Compiler, C# - Library
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Michael Greene
• Reporter: Michael Greene
• Created: 03/Feb/09 21:29
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 23/Mar/09 03:52

Description

The current requirements for Thrift are:
.NET 3.5 on Visual Studio 2008
or
Mono 1.2.6+ with special compiler flags or Mono 2.0 standard

This does not need to be. We can support the following setup without too much difficulty:
.NET 2.0+ on Visual Studio 2005+
Mono 1.2.4+ standard

I think we should, as this has come up several times via complaints on blogs, notes on the Wiki, or confusion on the mailing list. .NET 2.0's penetration is much higher than 3.5, and this moves support for Thrift out to ~2007 on the Mono side and ~2005 on the .NET side versus the current ~2008 for both.

Just wrapping this up over here, patch will be available later today.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: THRIFT-272 (C#) ThreadedServer fails to build on Ubuntu 8.04
• is depended upon by: THRIFT-71 Debian packaging for thrift
• is related to: THRIFT-394 Work around Mono < 1.2.4 not defining CLI ThreadPool correctly