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

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Changed by bmaurer@users.sf.net.

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

--- shadow/58244	2004-06-06 20:36:52.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/58244.tmp.1909	2004-06-06 21:54:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -171,6 +171,24 @@
 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.
 
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+------- Additional Comments From bmaurer@users.sf.net  2004-06-06 21:54 -------
+Dilton,
+
+Agreed. The reason we give graceful errors is so that people don't
+blame MCS :-). OTOH, in general it is more useful to focus our efforts
+on making things that are broken in MCS right now work.
+
+I think this would be a very easy task to do. If this is important to
+you, and it seems it is, it would be a great task to take on.
+Otherwise, the time frame for fixing this is, sadly, when a hacker has
+time.
+
+As a side note: in general, Microsoft's error messages are much better
+than ours. If I get an invalid file type assertion, I usually copy
+things over to my windows box and look at it with peverify. Any time
+you see a messy mcs error, the first plan of action is really to look
+at csc's message.