Compatibility problem.

[Mishasama]

I have read the documentation on the official website, which says that the highest compatibility is currently up to .NET 4.7.
I would like to ask why the Mono compatibility version is so far behind, given that .NET 6 is already an LTS version and .NET 7 is already a release version. Is there a plan to upgrade to a higher version?
Because the new versions of .NET have many performance and design optimizations, it would be a shame to give up the performance under Windows to be compatible with Linux.

I am sorry, I am just a beginner, and I am just getting to know Mono today. I am sorry if my question seems stupid.

[jbatt33]

Why not use dotnet runtime instead for .NET 6?

[Mishasama]

I see that core seems to be better suited for cross-platform? I'm still a bit puzzled because it's very slow in processing files with thousands of lines over 1 hour. And it didn't use up my CPU performance.
But I've seen other software that handles large amounts of data upgraded from 4 all the way to 7 for performance. I'm not sure if it's worth it for SE, what do you think?
He also mentioned the WinForms issue, I wonder if that would be a hindrance to permanently not being able to upgrade?

[jbatt33]

If you are referring to the ability to read a file via parallel processing, that is available in .NET framework and is up to the developer of that project to provide this functionality.

If you are concerned about OCR issues, I'm not sure there is anything to be done there.

[jbatt33]

@Mishasama I think it would be worth seeing if the owner of that project wants to move over to .NET 8 and drop using mono as their cross platform runtime.

[Mishasama]

Is there any easy way to easily migrate a project to a newer version like .NET 8? I'm worried that he won't be able to do a huge migration job by himself.

[jbatt33]

There is a migration tool (I think) that will indicate all what is not compatible. I believe that tool is expected to be used to generate a task list of things to work on. It really depends on the project's use of .NET framework. You can clone the repo and see what happens when you target .NET 8. You'll need to create/modify project files to start :)

Checking this page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/porting/

I'm wondering if the OCR plugin could be an issue:
"Third-party controls and libraries might not have been ported to .NET and remain only available to .NET Framework."
Unless the OCR plugin is native...

I think we should move this discussion off the mono project and over to subtitle edit's repo. This really has nothing to do with mono.