IronGitHub with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0

[geronimoooooooo]

I just saw your library for accessing GitHub API 3.0 and it looks really nice. The problem is that I have a project that is developed in .NET 4.0 and VS 2010.
But I could only find a library IronGitHub.dll for net 45.

Could you please compile IronGitHub also to .NET 4.0? That would be awesome! Unfortunately I can not change my project to .NET 4.5.

[johnduhart]

Right now the code is written using async/await so we would need to use some sort of shim for 4.0.

[timerickson]

I don't know how we would "shim" async/await. I think it would need to be rewritten with the traditional AsyncOperation pattern. But we might not have to. Any volunteers to try this? It would only get us down to 4.0. Is that enough?

[JakeGinnivan]

.net 4.5 is not needed to use async/await, it is a compiler feature. You just need to use the Microsoft.Bcl.Async NuGet package.

Then just make sure it is a framework specific dependency.

[JakeGinnivan]

So I spiked this. there are 2 options (which I can see)

1. Use Microsoft.Bcl.Async. It is easy, but means that .net 4.5 gets another dependency (because we need the binding redirect magic those packages give us because IronGitHub is compiled against types which comes from NuGet, but those types are available in .net 4.5 natively). The extra dependency thing kinda blows.
2. Build twice, once for .net 4.0 which uses the Microsoft.Bcl.Async and the second which doesn't. It just requires some tweaking to the .csproj file to conditionally import it.

PR for option 2 will be up in a minute.

[timerickson]

Gonna check this out - like the direction...