[Mono-dev] Mono.Security.StrongName.Verify Assemblies In Memory?

[Sebastien Pouliot]

Hey Jim,

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 00:08 +0100, Jim Purbrick (Babbage) wrote:
> We ship assemblies around over the network a lot and would like to be  
> able to use Mono.Security.StrongName to verify assemblies without  
> writing them to disk.
> 
> Would it be OK to add Mono.Security.StrongName.Verfiy(Stream) and  
> refactor some of the internals of Mono.Security.StrongName to  
> facilitate this (using Streams internally, instead of FileStreams).
> 
> If we made these changes, could we get them merged back in to Mono?

Best answer is "probably" since Mono.Security API is public and stable.
So it's possible to add things we can't remove features (even if we
don't like them ;-). 

But if you keep this in mind while doing the changes, if they don't
introduce other problems (e.g. new dependencies) and provides unit tests
then it should not be a problem to merge things back.

Sebastien

> Cheers,
> 
> Jim
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