Move to .NET 8

[cmello]

Hi,

If you would be interested in moving to .NET 8, this PR might be helpful.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Cesar

[baudronp]

Thanks @cmello for the PR!

We are also planning to move to net8, but there is deployment consideration that we need to tackle first 🙂

We may also considere multitargetting to net6 and net8 to let other external devs plan there migration at there own pace.

Anyway we will take a look a your PR, and maybe not take it exactly as is/redo it (don't take it personnally if we do 😅).

[cmello]

Thank you for the kind words @baudronp . :-) No rush, I was just taking a look at the amount of work it would take to upgrade to .NET 8, and shared the experiment as it could be helpful when migrating to .NET 8 for real. Thanks!

[jspelletier]

Hello Cesar,
You are interested into targetting .net 8 in the generated csproj or running sharpmake under .net 8? These are two totally different things. I see you did both. Targetting .net 8 in the generated csproj is a trivial change that could and should be submitted separately from an update of sharpmake for .net 8.

[cmello]

Hi Jean, I am interested in both. But neither is urgent. I can submit the csproj generation one separately if it looks correct. Thanks for your attention!

[jspelletier]

please create a PR for the csproj .net8 generation.

[cmello]

PR for csproj .NET 8 generation: #319

Thanks!

[cmello]

Unintentionally removed the PR contents while cleaning up my fork branches. The code corresponding to this PR is available in branch https://github.com/cmello/Sharpmake/tree/upgrade_to_net8 , but I am not moving forward with it for now. Thanks!