[Mono-dev] Dependencies between assemblies

Geoff Norton gnorton at novell.com
Mon Apr 7 19:56:03 EDT 2008


dBera,

   System.Web uses System.Drawing for drawing controls (iirc) and  
System.Windows.Forms because thats where the resource reader/writer  
reside.

-g

On 7-Apr-08, at 6:57 PM, Debajyoti Bera wrote:

> Hi,
> 	I noticed that some of the assemblies have strange dependencies e.g.
>
> $ monop2 --refs -r:System.Web | cut -f1 -d\,
> mscorlib
> System
> System.Configuration
> System.Windows.Forms
> System.Drawing
> System.Xml
> System.Web.Services
> System.Data
> System.EnterpriseServices
>
> How come System.Drawing and SW.Forms is a dependency of  
> System.Web ?! Is this
> just bad packaging or I am just being paranoid ? This is not the only
> weirdness, I was trying to use mkbundle and linker to reduce  
> dependencies
> when I noticed several other strange assemblies getting pulled in.
>
> - dBera
>
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