Difference between Autogen and Microsoft.Autogen

[Mimetis]

Hi folks;

A short question about the different projects in the dotnet folder:
What's the difference between Autogen and Microsoft.Autogen ?

I see that we have for example Autogen.Core and also Microsoft.Autogen.Core.
We have in both "worlds" some agents

Is it different ? Is it a new version ?

Thanks !

[ekzhu]

It's a new version.

Please read the doc: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/dotnet/README.md

And new version doc website: https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/dotnet/dev/

[Mimetis]

Thanks Eric for the answer
I still don't understand, let me explain:

It's a new version

Does it mean that Autogen will be deprecated at the end ?
Should we invest in this version Microsoft.Autogen ?

There is still a lot of classes and components updated in the Autogen solution.
Does it mean the two version runs in parallel ?

The Microsoft.Autogen doesn't have all the agents available in Autogen.

What is the guidance ? Should we use Autogen or should we wait until Microsoft.Autogen supports new agents ?

[rysweet]

Hi @Mimetis - the nuget/source for Autogen.* represent the AutoGen 0.2 version. The new 0.4-dev version is in the Microsoft.AutoGen namespace. You may see that there is a source package for Microsoft.AutoGen/AgentChat - this is almost ready for release and once it is the AutoGen.* packages will be retired/tagged for the 0.2 version and we will pull them from main. In the meantime we invite you to try out the Microsoft.AutoGen/Core library.

[Mimetis]

Thanks for the clarification !