XInput: Get rid of Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We use Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure to query various HW details
However, this library is not actively maintained.
Also, even when running within .NET Core , it requires .NET Framework to be installed (I think this is the only reason why we still have .NET Framework as an installer prerequisite).
We got rid of most of its uses already, however it is still needed for XInput.
Probably we could find a way to rewrite the code without it being needed.
Describe the solution you'd like
Find an alternative library and replace our code.
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 locating the remaining XInput code that uses Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure and reviewing how it queries hardware details. Investigate a maintained alternative that works without requiring .NET Framework; done means the XInput functionality remains available and this dependency is no longer needed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp
- Domain
- game-dev
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100