Question: are MVC view compiles deterministic ?

[davidglassborow]

Roslyn can do deterministic builds (dotnet/roslyn#372), and I've recently added this to Visual F# (dotnet/fsharp#2954).

At my workplace, this means that the MVC view compilation is the only step left in our build processes that isn't deterministic. I was wondering if the new aspnetcore view compilation will be deterministic ?, or if that is a feature you would consider adding ?

[rynowak]

No, they are not

1. We don't pass deterministic = true to the CSharpCompilerOptions - this is easy to fix
2. Each tag helper usage gets a unique identifier assigned to it, right now this isn't deterministic

[davidglassborow]

Is this something you would be happy to add ? If so I'll have a look at a PR to do so (probably post core 2.0 release)

[rynowak]

Is this something you would be happy to add ? If so I'll have a look at a PR to do so (probably post core 2.0 release)

If it adds value for you, and you want to send us a PR then sure we'd be happy to take it for 2.1. We already have the capability to replace the 'id generator' for tests, we'd just have to figure out a way to generate stable ids.

[Eilon]

This issue was moved to aspnet/Razor#1446