Are both System.Management and Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure dead?

[na1307]

Sorry if this is not the appropriate repo.

The MMI repo was archived in June. System.Management also doesn't seem to have seen any meaningful improvements in recent years. (Nullable reference type is not supported) These two are the most used libraries for accessing WMI from .NET. (I know MMI is a bit more up to date)

But at this point, with no real improvements being made to either of these, I wonder about the future of WMI in .NET.

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[Symbai]

System.Management ist definitely dead, see #94552 (comment) not sure about the other. But if something is Windows only, the chance for being dead is 99,9%.

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

The MSBuild metrics prototype at dotnet/msbuild#10946 (comment) uses System.Management to detect antivirus software; but it appears to be for .NET Framework only, thus not affected even if .NET Core deprecates WMI support.