The other day I needed a simple JSON parser for a thing I worked on. Sure, I’m familiar with JSON.NET, but I wanted something I could just compile into my project. The reason why is not important for this discussion (but it has to do with world domination, butterflies, and minotaurs). I found the SimpleJson package which is also on GitHub. SimpleJson takes advantage of a neat little feature of NuGet that allows you to include source code in a package and have that code transformed into the appropriate namespace for the package target. Oftentimes, this is used...
Recently, the Log4Net team released log4net 1.2.11 (congrats by the way!). The previous version of log4Net was 1.2.10. Despite which version of version you subscribe to, we can all agree that only incrementing the third part of a version indicates that the new release is a minor update and one that hopefully has no breaking changes. Perhaps a bug fix release. This is especially true if you subscribe to Semantic Versioning (SemVer) as NuGet does. As I wrote previously, SemVer is a convention for versioning your public APIs that gives meaning to the version...
Hi there, it’s time to shine the bat-signal, or better yet, the NuGet-Signal! The NuGet community needs your help! We’re wrestling with some interesting wide ranging design decisions and we need data to test out our assumptions and help us make the best possible choices. I won’t go into too much detail about the specific issue as I don’t want to bias the results of the following survey. I simply want to gather information about common practices by answering a set of questions that mostly have empirical answers. I think it’s a given that most Visual Studio solutions...