[Mono-list] Xcopy deployment of dlls

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:30, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > > Is mono supposed to support xcopy deployment?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > I have to restart xsp (actually apache2 with mod_mono) 
> > everytime I add 
> > > a new dll to my ./bin/ directory.
> > 
> > That's not XCOPY Deployment, at least as I understand it.
> >
> > XCOPY deployment is the ability to run an application 
> > *without* running an installer first.  Thus the application 
> > is location-independent, and deploying (installing) to 
> > another machine is as simple as copying the application.
> > 
> > What you want is the ability for xsp to restart the AppDomain 
> > whenever it notices that a DLL has changed within the bin 
> > directory.  Last I knew, this wasn't entirely functional as 
> > the FileSystemWatcher wasn't entirely functional.
> 
> So what you're saying is "Mono is supposed to support xcopy deployment, but
> currently doesn't"?
> 

I think what he is saying is that mono *does* support Xcopy deployment
but what you are asking about is something else that doesn't work
properly at the moment.  Although I am not quite sure what the problem
with FileSystemWatcher is as I have been using it for quite some time
now.

/J\
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