[Mono-dev] Assemblies in the CLR system directory and F# scripting.

[Alexander Köplinger]

EntityFramework was already removed from the upcoming Mono 4.0.
I also just checked and on Windows I have System.Web.Razor.dll (Razor 2.0) in the GAC as well, so maybe there's some other issue here?
 
-- Alex
 
> From: matthi.d at googlemail.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:08:54 +0200
> To: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: [Mono-dev] Assemblies in the CLR system directory and F# scripting.
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> TL;DR: We should remove System.Web.Razor.dll, EntityFramework.dll (and
> possibly more) from "/usr/lib/mono/4.5"
> 
> I noticed that some assemblies (namely "EntityFramework" and
> "System.Web.Razor" and possibly more) lead to problems when used within
> a F# script file. The problem is the following:
> 
> Assume you use NuGet to download the latest Razor-3 package and then do
> the following (in an F# script file):
> 
> #I "packages/Microsoft.AspNet.Razor/lib/net45"
> #r "System.Web.Razor.dll"
> 
> Note that this is the usual way of loading assemblies in F# scripting
> and it works fine on Windows/.NET.
> 
> However because this is the same as using
> "/lib:packages/Microsoft.AspNet.Razor/lib/net45
> /reference:System.Web.Razor.dll" on the C# compiler and because mono has
> a "System.Web.Razor.dll" in its CLR system directory (/usr/lib/mono/4.5)
> it will redirect the reference (CLR system directory is always
> preferred, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s5bac5fx.aspx).
> 
> This already hit me several times:
>  - https://github.com/fsharp/FSharp.Compiler.Service/issues/313
>  - https://github.com/tpetricek/FSharp.Formatting/pull/279
> 
> I'm not really sure why mono actually needs those file to live there.
> For referencing the NuGet package should be fine. To load the correct
> (mono compatible) version on runtime the GAC should do it.
> IMHO we can just remove the System.Web.Razor.dll (and possibly others?)
> from the runtime directory.
> @akoeplinger noted the following in the gitter chat: It would be a
> breaking change for people depending on "/reference:System.Web.Razor" to
> just work.
> But I'm not sure how common that is with the NuGet package in place.
> IIRC xbuild and msbuild always use fully qualified references, so it
> shouldn't be a problem for them.
> 
> So... Is removing those file something we can do? I just wanted to bring
> attention to this issue as it can be *really* hard to debug. The
> workarounds in place for this are required anyway to work with older
> mono versions. The workaround in itself is simple you just need to use
> the fully qualified reference instead:
> 
> #r "packages/Microsoft.AspNet.Razor/lib/net45/System.Web.Razor.dll"
> 
> However this can be a problem if you don't know in advance in which of
> the included directories ("#I") the file is living. (Because F# will
> stop executing if the fully qualified reference doesn't exists).
> 
> Thanks,
>  Matthias
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