[Mono-dev] Old version of Entity Framework bundled with Mono

[Andres G. Aragoneses]

On 08/08/15 06:52, Daniel Lo Nigro wrote:
> I recently spend a while debugging an issue I was having with Entity
> Framework, only to find that it was happening because Mono ships with a
> beta version in its GAC. Would it be possible to either update this to
> the latest release build, or stop shipping with it and instead let
> people use their own version from NuGet? There's some bugs in the
> bundled beta that were resolved in the final release, and it's lacking
> some of the classes (for example, DbConfiguration is missing). Shipping
> an older version in the GAC is problematic as a GAC'd version of an
> assembly is always preferred over a local copy, so I needed to
> completely delete it from the GAC to get my site to work properly.


This has already been done in the master branch:

https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/c1bbee0b95f300df9d5d2d9e6bb3f3c162d73406