[Mono-devel-list] System.Reflection.AssemblyName issues

Gert Driesen gert.driesen at pandora.be
Wed Jun 9 14:14:00 EDT 2004


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From: "Jackson Harper" <jackson at ximian.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] System.Reflection.AssemblyName issues


>
> Hi Gert,
>
> I started to fix this but even with my fix we will get different output
> right now, and its not worth introducing allot of logic to fix. Both our
> AssemblyName::FullName and MSs AssemblyName::FullName are correct and
> its really just a formatting issue.  The reason for the difference comes
> down to them accessing various properties of an assembly name at
> different times then we do.
>
> File a bug report and mark it as wishlist to be honest it might even
> get marked as NOTABUG eventually.

Ok, I'll do just that.

> I dont anticipate this being fixed for
> 1.0 as the chances that it would introduce a class lib bug far outweigh
> the need to fix it.

I understand.

> Unless you have some issue that requires it to be changed.

I ran into the difference when writing unit tests for Reflection.Emit.

Is it ok if I commit unit tests for this "bug" (we could always marked them
as Ignore later) ?

Gert




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