NUnitLite 1.0 Release

[Charlie Poole]

I'm working toward the first production release of NUnitLite, which has been in an Alpha state for a long time. The NUnitLite 1.0 Beta release should be out in a week or two. The purpose of this note is to lay out for users the packages I expect to release and to get any comments you may have.

Binaries:

* Binary releases will include only the nunitlite assembly and the corresponding XML file. If you want to run nunitlite's own tests, you will need to get the source.

* Full binary release will be a zip file containing versions for every platform we currently support: (.NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, Silverlight 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, .NET CF 2.0, 3.5). Each directory is independent of the others, so you can install in any location and delete the versions you don't use.

* There will be two Nuget packages: one containing .NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5 and Silverlight 5.0 and a second containing the CF releases. The reason for this separation is that you can't build for CF in the latest releases of Visual Studio anyway. For builds not included in a nuget package, you'll have to download the zip.

Source:

There won't be a source package. Experience with NUnit indicates that releasing the source at a particular point in time encourages folks to work with out-of-date source rather than going directly to the repository.

Documentation:

The current text file describing diffences between NUnitLite and NUnit will be updated but no further docs will be added. The online NUnit docs will be updated to indicate which features are supported by NUnitLite.

Please let me know what you think of the above plans and tell me if there is something I have missed.

Charlie