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Giraffe.ViewEngine.StrongName breaks compatability with Giraffe server

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Tech stack
fsharp
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Reproduce the reported build failure with the Giraffe template, Plotly.Net 4.1.0 or newer, and the dotnet 8.0.204 environment described. Inspect the dependency versions behind Components.fs line 286 and Program.fs line 57; done means the sample project builds without the Giraffe.ViewEngine versus Giraffe.ViewEngine.StrongName type mismatch.

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Hey, thanks for you effort in this library, it really is amazing.

I came about an issue with the fork project mentioned here https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe.ViewEngine/issues/23

It is currently not possible to render a chart to json in a giraffe backend via toJson gChart as it was added in version 4.1.0 which doesn't work with giraffe due to a presence of forked Giraffe.ViewEngine.StrongName package

Components.fs(286,9): error FS0001: All elements of a list must be implicitly convertible to the type of the first element, which here is 
'Giraffe.ViewEngine.HtmlElements.XmlAttribute (Giraffe.ViewEngine.StrongName, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=028aa8e2a326f4d0)'. 
This element has type 'Giraffe.ViewEngine.HtmlElements.XmlAttribute (Giraffe.ViewEngine, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)'. 
[Components.fsproj::TargetFramework=net8.0]
Repro steps
dotnet new giraffe -o plot
cd plot
dotnet add package Plotly.Net
dotnet build
Expected behavior

Project builds

Actual behavior
/home/a/projects/plot/Program.fs(57,14): error FS0001: This expression was expected to have type    'Giraffe.ViewEngine.HtmlElements.XmlNode (Giraffe.ViewEngine, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)'    but here has type    'Giraffe.ViewEngine.HtmlElements.XmlNode (Giraffe.ViewEngine.StrongName, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=028aa8e2a326f4d0)' [/home/a/projects/plot/plot.fsproj]

Build FAILED.
Known workarounds

Fork Plotly.Net and revert the change

Related information
  • Operating system Linux
  • Branch v4.1.0+
  • dotnet 8.0.204
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