[Mono-devel-list] GAC, Shared Assemblies and Assembly Versioning

[Paolo Molaro]

On 02/04/04 Jason King wrote:
> Given that Mono users have the freedom to install Mono and supporting
> libraries pretty much wherever they like, where does this leave the Mono
> implementation of the global assembly cache?  For example, say I want to add
> a shared assembly so that all apps on my machine can use it...?

Versioned and strongnamed assemblies may be installed (using a specific
gacutil program) into a per-user or per-system GAC-like directory
structure. Additionally, the loader will also look at the MONO_PATH
environment variable (list of directories) and in a default location.
Only the default location and MONO_PATH support is implemented right
now. The loader side of the GAC will be implemented as soon as we figure
out a way to cheat about versions and strongnames.

lupus

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