[Mono-devel-list] Assembly versioning

[Jackson Harper]

Hello,

	There doesn't seem to be and hard rules regarding this. If you create
an assembly and install it to the GAC then reference an assembly with a
different revision number the assembly will not load. So it seems to
only be done with System assemblies (from my research at least). I
haven't found any configuration files or anything that are doing the
remapping. Do you know how the runtime is supposed to know its ok to
disregard portions of version numbers?

Thanks!
Jackson


On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 20:44, Marcus wrote:
> The Mono runtime appears to require an exact match between compile-time and 
> run-time version numbers, at least as far as major and minor version -- I'm 
> not sure about the revision and build number. For example, if I compile 
> 'version.cs' and reference version 1:2:3400:0 of System.Xml, mono will reject 
> the executable 'version.exe' if it finds version 1.0.5500 of System.Xml at 
> runtime.
> 
> This is not consistent with .NET. .NET will run applications where the version 
> numbers differ, at least in the minor version number. (I am not sure about 
> the major version numbers.)
> 
> Partition II section 6.2.1.4 addresses this issue by saying that "[a] 
> conforming implementation may ignore version numbers entirely, or it may 
> require that they match precisely when binding a reference, or any other 
> behavior deemed appropriate."
> 
> One of the consequences of this behavior is that applications built with Pnet 
> will run on .NET, Rotor, and Pnet, but fail on Mono, because Pnet's libraries 
> are carrying version like 1:2:3400:0.
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