compilation err about t5 HOT 1 CLOSED

The template engine and language currently has no notion of using NuGet packages, target framework monikers and many things that would be needed to have templates work as smoothly as they did under .NET Framework. Using anything beyond the very basics available in .NET Core is going to be difficult. The right expectation to keep is that T5 will pretty much work (for now) for very simple templates that:

• use C# (i.e. <#@ template language="C#" #>)
• don't rely on a specific host (i.e. <#@ template hostspecific="false").
• independent of the IDE (i.e. no <#@ Assembly name="EnvDTE" #>).
• don't require external assembly references (i.e. no @Assembly directive).

See my comment in mono/t4#8 about the goal and scope of T5. If you wish for more complete support so that you have to make the least amount of changes in your templates then mono/t4 is a better place to ask and look for that as @mhutch has much more ambitious plans for T4.

I'm going to close this as out of scope.

from t5.