netstandard20 portability on .NET Core about standard HOT 6 CLOSED

I assume not currently as only .NET 4.6.1+ will currently support netstandard20 - though it will eventually. More details here https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introducing-net-standard/

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Thanks.
But what does this mean for platform portability? Currently our library supports Linux and Mac OS with netstandard1.6 target on .NET Core (resp. ASP.NET Core). When .NET Core moves to .NET Standard 2 can it be executed on these platforms? Or do you give up platform portability for .NET Core in order to become .NET Standard 2 compatibile faster? I have some doubts that .NET Standard 2 will ever come to Linux and Mac OS.

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Do you need .NET Standard 2.0? For example if you target .NET Standard 1.3 that will give you wider cross platform compatibility now (including Mono, UWP, iOS, Android and Core) whereas 2.0 will be in the future and .NET Standard 1.3 is automatically compatible with 2.0.

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.NET Standard 2.0 does not take away .NET Core's ability to run on multiple OSes. The blog post didn't call it out explicitly but nothing is going away.

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@benaadams @davidfowl Thanks both of you for this clear statement.

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Correct on both fronts. There isn't any thing inherit in .NET Standard 2.0 that makes it not implementable in x-plat. There will always be some rough edges of APIs that won't work well x-plat and might even throw PlatformNotSupportedException those should be the exceptional case.

As for corefx/.NET Core support .NET Standard 2.0 see https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Anetstandard2.0 which are all the issue tracking the work do add that support.

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