[Mono-bugs] [Bug 58244][Wis] Changed - error CS1509: Referenced file '...' is not an assembly; use '/addmodule' option instead

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Changed by diltonm@mccomsoft.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=58244

--- shadow/58244	2004-06-06 16:31:06.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/58244.tmp.1067	2004-06-06 20:36:52.000000000 -0400
@@ -155,6 +155,22 @@
 LOG: Attempting download of new URL file:///C:/Inetpub/ftproot/t.dll.
  
 Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings
 
 It does not tell me anything about module/assembly, but at least it is
 not an assertion, and the compiler is able to exit semi-gracefully.
+
+------- Additional Comments From diltonm@McCOMSoft.com  2004-06-06 20:36 -------
+Thanks for checking Ben. Coming from the Visual Studio.NET world I'd
+never seen this problem. Today, it finally occured to me to try
+Microsoft's compiler from the command line and I got the /addmodule
+error you mentioned. Miguel had mentioned something about modules
+versus assemblies but that reference did not register with me.
+
+All this aside, I come from the programmer's old world. A compiler
+crash regardless the reason is significant. I've stopped a project
+because of this. The compiler is ground zero. If it can't be trusted
+to return an error because the wrong switch was passed in; that calls
+into the question its product quality. Because it is the compiler, it
+casts a huge shadow on the entire Mono project, and anything else
+being built with it, IMHO.
+