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jonsequitur
Bring back .net5.0?
Hi! Thanks for the great tool.
As I see, you've dropped support for .net 5.0 in https://github.com/jonsequitur/dotnet-repl/pull/44/. Any chance dotnet-repl could run both on 5.0 and 6.0?
Thanks for the kind words.
When .NET Interactive supports different TFMs or SDKs, then dotnet repl will be able to do so as well, but it's not a problem we're working on right yet. We updated to .NET 6 because it's the latest version and .NET 5 goes out of support in May.
Is there something specific you want to do that you need .NET 5 for? Understanding your scenario might help us think about how to prioritize a multiple-TFM feature in .NET Interactive.
Well, not that specific in fact.
We just have not started migration to .NET 6 yet. But I am sure there are lots of projects that are not even .NET 5. Thus REPL that targets some earlier frameworks may be of interest. As I see, Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive is netstandard2.1 and Spectre.Console is netstandard2.0 so it seems attainable at a first glance.
Just to add to what @starteleport said, many teams/companies (such as the one I work on ;)) tend only use LTS versions of .NET. As such, pinning each repl release to the latest .NET version at the moment is a bit inconvenient. As an example, I've started using the tool recently and I use .NET 6 on my machine, so the latest version repl version didn't work (as it's pinned to .NET 7). It wasn't a deal breaker as I was sufficiently motivated to find a version that was built for .NET 6, but some users might have just given up on the tool on the spot.
