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Give agents individual names
Working on the GUI implementation of pluggable agents, I realized that users creating agents would probably not use our naming convention and that I would have to allow for it.
That led me to realize that it might be a nice feature for each of our agents to have a different name... like net20-agent, netcore31-agent, etc. That way users could tell immediately which agent had been selected to run their tests when a problem arose.
I'm initially calling this an idea and a breaking change. I think it's at least "a little bit" breaking anyway. Not sure if it's sufficiently breaking to make it wait to 4.0 @nunit/engine-team What do you think?
Sure, why not!
Can you clarify why you consider this breaking? Agent behaviour is completely internal to the engine, isn't it?
Well, it's breaking only because some user could say it broke them, if they did something relying on the file name, like launching the agent themselves. Personally, I would prefer to exclude something like this from the definition of "breaking."
I agree - I would say that the scenario you describe isn't supported. I've recategorised this as an enhancement accordingly. 🙂
Note... Due to various issues with Visual Studio, using one project to create assemblies with different names turns out to be unworkable. Instead, I'll create a project for each target runtime, sharing the source code. This isn't all bad, since many of these will eventually be removed to become pluggable agent extensions.