Re: NUnit and VS2005 Project Files

Hi Daniel, 

> ASSuming the following:
> 
> NUnit is a .Net application.

Indeed. And designed to test other .NET applications.
 
> .Net is designed to be CPU independant.  It relies on the CLR 
> which can be written for any CPU.

Yes.

> Does it make sense to build a .Net application for any 
> platform besides "Any CPU?"

Apparently yes, given that people are doing it and Visual Studio
supports it. But, frankly, I don't quite understand it either.

I do know that for C#, the only difference between x86, x64, IA-64
and AnyCPU is a flag in the header of the assembly. That flag is
used to determine which CLR will be used to run the assembly and
subsequently which GAC will be searched for references. For C++
mixed assemblies, of course, the difference would be more significant,
but that's not what this particular bug is about.

So what I'm looking for here is a better understanding of what
people are doing and why, since NUnit has to support what its
users are doing.

So, can anyone shed light on this?

Charlie

> dmp
> 
> Charlie Poole wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Some questions about a current problem...
> >
> > A bug has been reported whereby configs for any platform other than 
> > AnyCPU are ignored.
> >
> > VS2005 allows creating multiple configs for multiple 
> platforms, so you 
> > could have a different property group for Debug|AnyCpu, 
> Debug|x86 and 
> > Debug|x64.
> >
> > 1) Does anyone make use of this capability?
> >
> > 2) How should NUnit create test configs when opening a file with 
> > multiple platforms.
> > If we create separate configs per platform, what names 
> should we use 
> > to distinguish them?
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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