Strong-name Xamarin.Build.Download

[jonpryor]

Context: xamarin/xamarin-android@2d81740
Context: https://discord.com/channels/732297728826277939/732297837953679412/983404599920705557

An occasionally reported issue is an MSB4064 error when using Xamarin.Build.Download:

C:\Users\allan.nuget\packages\xamarin.build.download\0.11.0\buildTransitive\Xamarin.Build.Download.targets(60,4): error MSB4064: The "AndroidFixManifests" parameter is not supported by the "XamarinDownloadArchives" task loaded from assembly: Xamarin.Build.Download, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null from the path: C:\Users\allan.nuget\packages\xamarin.build.download\0.11.2\buildTransitive\Xamarin.Build.Download.dll. Verify that the parameter exists on the task, the <UsingTask> points to the correct assembly, and it is a settable public instance property.

This error probably happens because there is more than one Xamarin.Build.Download.dll running around, and because Xamarin.Build.Download.dll is not strong-named, only one can be loaded into the AppDomain at a time. Consequently, you have very little control over which version is used, and if the wrong version is used, things break.

Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks.dll had a very similar issue, which was fixed by strong-naming Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks.dll and all of its dependencies: xamarin/xamarin-android@2d81740

I suspect that Xamarin.Build.Download.dll should likewise be strong-named, in order to allow multiple different versions to be loaded into the same AppDomain, which should avoid these MSB4064 errors.

[carrilloan]

Is there any workaround? in my case mix version 0.10.0 with 0.11.4