[Mono-devel-list] GetReferencedAssemblies

[Zoltan Varga]

                                          Hi,

  Currently, mono loads the referenced assemblies instead of just returning the
info from the parent assembly.

         Zoltan

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:15:34 +0100, Kamil Skalski <nazgul at nemerle.org> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> We have encountered some differences in behaviour of Assemly's
> GetReferencedAssemblies method between mono and MS.NET. At first it seemed
> the bug in .NET - it was not able to load assemblies from directory, when
> they were not in ApplicationBase. The details are described
> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=9e13bf80-1b3a-4ad0-b9ff-a372bf960539
> 
> Altought, the response from MS convinced me a little bit, that our expectation
> about recursive loading of assemblies does not make sense always.
> 
> Imagine someting along lines:
> compiler loads a.dll from foo/a.dll
> foo/a.dll  depends on b.dll
> now, on .NET b.dll will be loaded only if it is in the GAC, or somewhere in
> current path (ApplicationBase). On mono it seems, that
> GetReferencedAssemblies actually lookup where b.dll could be (beginning from
> its own directory), which MAY or MAY NOT be the good idea.
> 
> I agree, that current design in mono is quite natural and JUST WORKS, but
> 1) how is the lookup order and paths to lookup in defined in this case? Do
> mono really phisically load b.dll when calling GetReferencedAssemblies for
> a.dll?
> 2) probably the behaviur should be the same on mono and .NET
> 
> --
> Kamil Skalski
> http://nemerle.org developer
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