[Mono-devel-list] GAC (design) issues

[John Luke]

> 
> I have always felt that it was a good idea, and for the most part have
> been attempting to convince myself that its not needed. Jackson and I
> touched on this on irc for a bit, and Miguel has also been spoken with
> briefly about it.
> 
> --Todd

Just in case this hasn't been considered, there was some posts on the MS
blogs not long ago on what assemblies should be GAC'ed. If I remember
correctly, the recommendation was for essentially the framework dlls and
almost nothing else.  This of course may not be relevent to the mono
implementation, nor reflect the reality in Windows.  I just thought I
should mention it so that after this is all worked out we can have some
recommendations of whether everyone should use the GAC or not.