microsoft / microsoft/playwright-dotnet
Multi-target to reduce dependencies
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Description
Currently, Microsoft.Playwright has a few dependencies which are all unnecessary on modern .NET because they are part of the framework itself. This will become even more of an issue with .NET 9 since NuGet Audit will start complaining about CVEs in transitive dependencies, so all consuming modern. NET applications will get false positive warnings about e.g. a CVE in System.Text.Json .
Multi-targeting would allow to remove these dependencies on modern .NET . It would also allow to conditionally make use of newer APIs in modern .NET.
I could make a PR for this and already looked into this. Unfortunately this is not as simple as editing the csproj since quite a few new warnings are introduced in the net8.0 target which would need fixing or suppressing. So I first wanted to get some feedback on whether a PR for this would be accepted.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Microsoft.Playwright csproj and its current target framework and dependency declarations. Compare the net8.0 target behavior, including the new warnings mentioned in the issue, and inspect where newer APIs could be used. Done means modern .NET targets no longer carry unnecessary framework dependencies and the resulting warnings are fixed or deliberately suppressed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100