A strongly-named assembly is required

[tiger31]

Hello, I'm trying to use ReportPortal.Shared functionality and getting warring on build and exception on assembly load in runtime:

Could not load file or assembly 'ReportPortal.Shared, Version=3.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. A strongly-named assembly is required. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131044)

Any chance of getting this assembly strongly-named?

[nvborisenko]

100%

Signing the assembly with strong name is virus. It means that we need release all left/right-over packages.

Easy change - big impact. Sorry no timelines, I believe next major version (or minor?).

[nvborisenko]

To make it possible, when signing assemblies with strong name

• NuGet package can be any version like 1.2.3
• We should keep only major version in assembly like 1.0.0 (the same as major version from package)
• To keep tracking exact version in assembly we can save it in any compiled attribute at assembly level (GA analytics should use it to determine exact assembly version)
• Don't forget to recompile and republish successors (it's a virus)
• Don't forget to increase major version

And, obviously, test it carefully. I am wondering in cases where intermediate package is referenced by any others, and the target version of referenced package is different.