[Mono-dev] Ug

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> So it's a question of which kind of error message is preferable.  If  
> the
> entry isn't present within sqlmetal.exe.config, then `sqlmetal
> -provider:MySQL ...' will generate the error message "Failed to load
> provider MySQL...", while if the entry is present but the assembly  
> isn't
> found, they'll get an error message similar to "Could not load type
> "MySql.Data.MySqlConnection, MySql.Data".
>
> Either way it doesn't work, so it's likely just a matter of which  
> error
> is "better."

Thanks for the explanation.

I would like to see this special cased in the code and even provide a  
more detailed error message in this condition than just the barebones  
error that we get from Reflection.Load and explicitly state something  
like:

"The MySQL provider is not installed in the GAC, you can get it  
from ..."

We do things like this with mcs which suggests things like -pkg: -r:  
and even namespaces to include in the source.

Miguel.