Should I upgrade to Castle Windsor v2?

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Should I upgrade to Castle Windsor v2?

We are evaluating to upgrade Castle Windsor Container to Version 2, which was released in May this year. By this time I would expect the community to have made some experiences about the new release...

My main concerns are:

Is it worth the effort to upgrade to v.2? (any major important new functionality or bug fixes?)
Is the migration smooth or are there some pitfalls and things that are not backward compatible?
Is there a performance improvement?

Cheers, Jacob

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It requires .Net Framework 3.5, this is what is holding me back to upgrade to the newest release for a few projects that are still running on Windows 2000 machines.

Jochen 2009-10-01 08:44:24

OK we are already using 3.5 so no problem there

JacobE 2009-10-01 08:45:46

Well for the projects I did the upgrade, everything went smooth. But I'm still working with the xml-files and aren't using the new fluent/lambda api.

Jochen 2009-10-01 08:54:42

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Yes it is worth the upgrade. A lot has changed since RC3, including many bugfixes, addition of fluent registration API etc. I don't know about any big perf improvement, but do you have any performance problems with Windsor?

There were no breaking changes as far as I know, but it's best to just pull Windsor down, upgrade and see if all your tests pass.

Krzysztof Koźmic 2009-10-01 09:23:40

I don't have any specific performance problems with Windsor but we are optimizing across the line, and are investigating if we can get a quick gain here.

JacobE 2009-10-01 10:06:54

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