Plan for #SNMP Library vNext

As .NET Core 2.0 is coming, I think it is time to write about the plan for #SNMP Library vNext (the version number is uncertain yet, 9.5 or 10.0).

Minimal .NET Framework Version

Now the plan is to require .NET Framework 4.6.0 and above. If Microsoft does resolve multiple target framework support in .NET Standard Class Library project, then I might add back .NET Framework 4.5.x support.

Minimal .NET Standard Version

The plan is to support .NET Standard 1.3 and above. Won’t support other .NET Standard versions, as they are too limited. But since a workaround is used to run this library on .NET Standard 1.3, I might build a .NET Standard 2.0 assembly in NuGet package to remove this workaround.

Extra Assemblies

We still need to have SharpSnmpLib.Full.dll, SharpSnmpLib.iOS.dll, and SharpSnmpLib.Android.dll, although now they only contain two classes each. This is a limitation of .NET Standard 1.3.

Probably when .NET Standard 2.0 comes, we can finally have a single SharpSnmpLib.NetStandard20.dll to rule all the platforms.

Stay tuned.