coypu - release of new version 3.0.0-rc

[obstar]

I'm thinking about releasing a new version of coypu which supports selenium v3.14.

My initial idea was to release it coypu with new version of .net framework (net471) but as it was pointed out by @LukeOwlclaw and @Hawxy (in #191 (comment)) there is out there quite a few legacy projects using lower versions of .net framework.
Having that in mind I've checked that last release of coypu v2.14 use net3.5.
From what I see the master branch with current net4.7.1 can be easily downgraded to .net4.0 without breaking anything, if I go to net3.5 there is conflict with one dependency which was updated to newer version and it expects .net4.0 so..

Current plan is to bump it .net framework from net3.5 to net4.0 - the lowest possible version that is required by one of updated dependency.
Because it is breaking change I will follow sem-ver and I will bump major version of coypu and because it happen to be same major version as selenium webdriver I will sync to it:
coypu.3.14.0

Is there are more concerns regarding .net framework version?

[Hawxy]

Following on from our conversation, I'm likely going to do a PR that dual-targets netstandard2.0 and net45, so the library will be compatible with the common set of netfx versions alongside .net core.

I think net40 is a bit too old and might end up holding development back at some point. The majority of users are likely on at least net45. Does this sound fine to you?

[obstar]

yeap, the .net45 sounds great.

[obstar]

@Hawxy got question about that dual-target of netstandard2.0 and net45
When I'm looking on this: https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/versions/netstandard2.0.md
is clearly that netstandard2.0 supports only:

.NET Core 2.0
.NET Framework 4.6.1

same goes for that source https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/net-standard#net-implementation-support that for net45 is netstandard1.1

unless current dual target mean that:

1. all projects that got net45 and above can use it coypu
2. all projects from netstandard2.0 and above can use it coypu (including support for .NET Core 2.0 and above)
   ?
   Just want to double check that before releasing.

[Hawxy]

So, dual-targeting this way effectively says "Hey, this package works in anything that supports net45 and above OR implements NS2.0", thus nuget will permit an install on any project that meets that requirement and resolve the appropriate dependencies.

Specifically, we're targeting NET45 + NS2.0 because Selenium.WebDriver targets NET35/NET40/NET45/NS2.0 and we have to keep our targets supported by our dependencies.

So yes, this package will work on any .NET Framework 4.5+ or .NET Core 2.0+ project.

[obstar]

@Hawxy perfect. I will do release later today or at the end of the week.

[obstar]

Coypu 3.0.0-rc has been released https://github.com/featurist/coypu/releases/tag/3.0.0-rc