[MonoDevelop] Visibility of GAC Dll's

Petit Eric surfzoid at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 03:41:11 EDT 2009


damed, once time i forget the list !

2009/4/28 Petit Eric <surfzoid at gmail.com>:
> Why use the .pc file rather directly the dll in the GAC, like MS do.
> In a "broken" system, who have the .pc file but not the dll in the GAC
> ..........
> Same problem in the other side !
> This can only be a source of confusion ?
>
> 2009/4/28 Dan Winslow <DWinslow at aiminstitute.org>:
>>
>> Understood, thanks all.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Hutchinson [mailto:m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tue 4/28/2009 11:32 AM
>> To: Dan Winslow
>> Cc: Chris Howie; monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com
>> Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Visibility of GAC Dll's
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Dan Winslow <DWinslow at aiminstitute.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> In cases like that, you should set the reference to "local copy", so
>> that the assembly gets copied into your app's bin directory, and
>> distribute it with your app.
>>
>> You should only put an assembly in the GAC if you wish that exact
>> version/copy to be shared by other apps, and you're able to make a
>> commitment to its API stability. In general, only the originator of
>> the assembly can make this commitment.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Hutchinson
>> http://mjhutchinson.com
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Cordially.

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