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Support `rollForward` value
Are there any plans to support the rollForward property in global.json?
If I set the version to 8.0.202 and rollForward to latestPatch, I would expect the script to install the (current) latest patch version 8.0.205, but that doesn't happen.
The same with the other values of the rollForward property.
Hello @siewers, thank you for raising the ticket! @baronfel Could you please take a look at the suggestion?
As a feature this makes sense, but I'm not sure that the existing redirect setup gives us the ability to actually handle all of the kinds of rollForward that exists today. I think to do this feature correctly we'd need to move to the releases json manifests as described in #463, but that involves a lot of json parsing that I'm loathe to do at the terminal.
@baronfel
As a feature this makes sense, but I'm not sure that the existing redirect setup gives us the ability to actually handle all of the kinds of rollForward that exists today. I think to do this feature correctly we'd need to move to the releases json manifests as described in #463, but that involves a lot of json parsing that I'm loathe to do at the terminal.
As you can see in #472, the only two new redirects we would need is <major>.x for latestMinor and actually working latest regardless of STS/LTS for latestMajor.
I think these requests all make sense, but we'd need to tag in @rbhanda and @leecow to make any changes to the redirect scheme. So we'd need to start with a public accounting of the current redirect scheme and document the new additions.
The idea seems sound. The redirect scheme was documented a while back by the former dev owner, so I expect @baronfel and @YuliiaKovalova would tackle that. With respect to releases.json size implications on https://github.com/dotnet/install-scripts/pull/472, we're in the process of implementing improvements to the release notes json files to help with the file size issue (https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/9417).
