I’ve been reading a bunch and playing around with Castle Windsor 1.0 RC3 lately and really like the functionality it provides. Recently 2.0 was released but for the time being I’m pretty much stuck with RC3 for the next little while. So with that in mind what are some of the glaring differences between the two versions and what are some of the pitfalls and respective workarounds when using 1.0 RC3 over 2.0? And additionally do any of these differences/pitfalls directly influence integration with MonoRail 1.0 RC3?
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Windsor has been improved a lot since RC3, you can see the entire changelog here.
I didn’t have much trouble upgrading Windsor itself from RC3 to 2.0 in a couple of apps.
But in some other projects with RC3 I have lots of other Castle dependencies (MonoRail, ActiveRecord, ActiveRecord facility, AutomaticTransactionManagement facility) so I would have to upgrade all of them (which aren’t released yet) plus I’d have to upgrade NHibernate (RC3 uses NHibernate 1.2, trunk is using NHibernate 2.1 which also isn’t released yet). I even used AspectSharp which is now defunct so I’d have to replace it. Some are pretty big projects and it would take me a lot of time to upgrade all these dependencies, time that I don’t have right now…
So I’ll wait for all of these dependencies to release, then upgrade everything. In the meantime, RC3 works just fine…