[Mono-devel-list] Mono Windows installer / GAC

[Gert Driesen]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gonzalo Paniagua Javier" <gonzalo at ximian.com>
To: "Mono Development" <mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Mono Windows installer / GAC


> El jue, 27-05-2004 a las 16:00, Gert Driesen escribió:
> > Hi Gonzalo,
> >
> > I wonder if it wouldn't be better to have a separate root directory for
> > storing the gac on Windows (guess we should also do this for unix, no) ?
> >
> > Currently, every Mono (beta, I know) release has a separate gac
directory.
> > What will happen once there are several mono releases (well, there are
> > already several beta releases) ?  Should a third party component be
> > installed in each individual GAC to be accessible to all Mono releases ?
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to come to a separate Mono GAC directory (eg.
> > <WINDIR>\Mono\gac) that is shared between all Mono releases (like MS
does) ?
>
> Good point. I prefer $INSTDIR\Mono\gac and then have, say 0.91.99,
> installed in $INSTDIR\Mono\Mono-0.91.99. I'll try to figure out how to
> do this for the next installer.

Users that tend to choose a version specific install dir will end with, for
example, C:\Program Files\Mono-0.91.99\Mono-0.91.99.

A good location for the GAC might be <$COMMONFILES>\Mono\gac.

How will you deal with this on unix ?

Gert
>
> -Gonzalo
>
>
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