[Mono-devel-list] GAC and third party libraries: post Beta planning.

[Michal Moskal]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:43:25AM +0200, Kamil Skalski wrote:
> The only addition to your design is the case when executing pkg-config fails 
> (package was not found, or there is no pkg-config program on system) = we 
> leave -r gtk-sharp then, so there is some (little) chance, that library would 
> be found without pkg-config.

The main advantage here is the meaningful error message -- -pkg:foobar
will give "cannot load foobar dll" or something like this. And the
chances of finding the dll anyway are still quite big -- when user gets
this message and just want to finally compile this program, he will
simply copy gtk-sharp.dll to current directory and it will 
Just Work(tm).

> It would be great to standardize to this solution. So also core libraries 
> would be mentioned in some .pc file (System.dll, etc.)

I guess there is no need to put core framework libraries in .pc files,
for the simple reason that everybody expects /r:System.dll (and not only
/pkg:System) to just work. And for this to work we need the assembly
directory (/usr/lib/mono/1.0).

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