[MonoDevelop] Visibility of GAC Dll's

[Dan Winslow]

Thanks, thats interesting...I get the feeling that there is some desire to escape some of the dll-hell type messes that can occur on MS platforms. At any rate, from that message this :

> The GAC tab is for referencing *properly* installed libraries. Some
> library you just gacutil -i'd is *NOT* properly installed.

makes me wonder...if I download a Dll ( in this case, a windows-version MySql dll ), should I do anything else besides just adding it as an assembly reference? Do I even need to do a gacutil -i on it? Do I need to make a pc file for it?

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Howie [mailto:cdhowie at gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 4/28/2009 11:16 AM
To: Dan Winslow
Cc: monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Visibility of GAC Dll's
 
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Dan Winslow <DWinslow at aiminstitute.org> wrote:
> I can't help but ask, though, why would MD not use the GAC?

There are a few reasons, but this message touches on one of the core problems:

http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/monodevelop-list/2005-August/002411.html

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