GitVersion.MSBuild Runtimes

[ByronMayne]

Hey folks,

First off, honestly great work with this project and I have been using it for years.

One thing I came across was how version 6.x.x does not support Visual Studio anymore. While not having the version set should be fine, because our product is released with ci. If you reference GitVersionInformation, the project will no longer compile. That is quite the deal breaker.

Looking into it and bugs, it looks like it is caused by the issues with the different runtimes. The question is, why does it have a runtime dependency at all? Can't you just run the cli version of GitVersion and parse the output rather then requiring the net runtimes?

I have written quite a few msbuild custom tasks in the past and have not come across the issue seen here. So the question comes from part of improving my knowledge.

Thank you !