[Mono-devel-list] Assembly resolution for monop

[Ben Maurer]

>>
>> 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)

How exactly do you tell mcs which version to use? IMHO, monop should have
the same syntax for references as mcs. Or is there another more logical
way to do it for monop.

> 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.

Adding support for generics is something i want to do in the future. Once
we start using List <T> we will still have the count/length confusion :-).
Gettting this support right is going to take a bit of effort though.

If anyone wants to start working on this, I'd be delighted. It is a great
way to learn the new 2.0 apis.

-- Ben