Source link support

[davidroth]

Source link is a great feature enabling easy and frictionless debugging of nuget packages.
I'd love to have source link support in SimpleInjetor. This would make it very easy to step into SimpleInjector`s source code to understand runtime behavior or to investigate potential bugs.

I recently integrated source link in our own OSS project. I am happy to support you if you have any issues.
Or I could just prepare a pull request if you dont have the time. Just let me know ;-)

[dotnetjunkie]

This is an interesting idea that has crossed my mind multiple times in the past, but never got further than that because I didn't find it that interesting to invest my time on.

That said, I am very interested to understand more about it, and a PR would certainly be useful. Especially because it gives me a sense of what the consequences are of doing this from a maintainability perspective. Remember: even code written by others typically need to be maintained by me, so that means I'm always careful in adding new features.

This means that I can't guarantee you that I'd accept your PR, but I certainly would like to see it.

[davidroth]

Impact is minimal. Its mostly a csproj/build.props thing. I'll prepare a PR and we can discuss the details there.

[dotnetjunkie]

Hi @davidroth, is it still useful to add source link? Newest versions of Visual Studio allow easy decompilation and debugging of library code. Is there still an additional benefit?

[davidroth]

@dotnetjunkie One benefit is that you get the real source code, with all its original comments and its original structure. So it can be more useful than the auto decompiled version - although usually the auto decompiled version will be enough.