[Mono-devel-list] System assembly remapping

[Gert Driesen]

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> Lluis Sanchez
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> Subject: [Mono-devel-list] System assembly remapping
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The following patch implements system assembly version 
> remapping, which
> is required to run applications that reference assemblies 
> compiled with
> an old framework version.
> 
> With the patch, when an assembly tries to load a system assembly that
> does not match the current runtime version, it will be remapped to the
> assembly expected by the runtime. This was partially supported by the
> runtime (with mapping from 1.0.3300 to 1.0.5000) but the new
> implementation supports mapping from any framework version, and works
> when assemblies are dynamically loaded using reflection.

I'm not sure if this would be really necessary. I think MS allows a .NET 1.1
corlib to be loaded on .NET 2.0 using reflection.

Perhaps having this remapping in place when resolving assembly references is
enough.  Need to verify this though.

> The list of system assemblies to which remapping is applied is hard
> coded in assembly.c, but it might be worth to read it from a
> configuration file.

Any chance this will be part of the 1.1.4 release ?

Gert