[Mono-devel-list] Assembly resolution for monop

[John Luke]

Hello,
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:52:38 -0500, Ben Maurer <bmaurer at ximian.com> wrote:

> One of the many uses of monop is to browse the gtk# classes. However,
> with the GAC, it is very hard to look at gtk-sharp.dll.

What do you mean by "very hard to look at gtk-sharp.dll

> 
> I am wondering if I can get advice for:
>       * What I need to do to make it easier for users to browse gtk#
>         assemblies especially, but also other assemblies that use all of
>         the versioning features we have provided
>       * How to cope with || installs?
>       * Any other things that I need to add to monop to cope with the
>         GAC.
> 

You can specify either the full path to an assembly, or the full
AssemblyName to load a specific version (at least it should work with
monop).  I agree it would be nice to make it easier. Perhaps by
default you get the latest possible version visible to monop, and
there is a version option where you restrict it by 1.X or 1.2.X etc. 
Although, the reflection API doesn't seem to provide an easy way to do
this if I remember correctly.

monop -r:gtk-sharp (gives you latest in GAC)
monop -r:gtk-sharp -version:1 (gives you latext 1.x)
monop -r:gtk-sharp -version:1.0 (gives you latext 1.0.x)

I'll add that the 1.1 compiled monop cant browse the 2.0 assemblies
(or anything compiled with gmcs) perhaps it should be compiled to do
so.