[Mono-devel-list] Proposal: Library Loading

[Rachel Hestilow]

Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:

>I like this, but then you lose the ability for the libfoo provider to
>ship the mapping with the library package, because they're not going to
>want to have to track which app is using which version.  The app itself
>also can't install its own entry unless we use some sort of helper tools
>for apps to register/unregister themselves, so we're back to the user
>manually putting in these strings into the magic file.
>  
>
In this example, libfoo is an unmanaged library, so libfoo won't be 
distributing a DLL mapping at all. It seems to me that the scenario the 
conf.d/version scheme is trying to solve is the problem of multiple 
assemblies each doing their own DllImport. So in this case, each 
assembly would install a mapping for itself.

The installation problem is solved by the method proposed by Tom to make 
the filenames insignificant. Special tools would not be needed for 
register/unregister for the assembly-specific mappings, because it is 
just a matter of dropping a file into the conf.d directory.

-- Rachel