[Mono-devel-list] System assembly remapping

[Lluis Sanchez]

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.

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.

Comments are welcome.
Lluis.


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