[MonoDevelop] constant minor, build version for monodevelop core libraries

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Carlo Kok <ck at carlo-kok.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> What about making the core dlls have only the major part of the assembly
> version set? So not every new minor build has to break all not included
> plugins (this could probably even help monotouch).
>
>
> The addin version with "compatVersion" settings mono.addins provides
> could define what range of versions it's really compatible with, but if
> the assembly version changes it doesn't even get to the point where it
> can decide if it can be loaded.

Maybe in cases where we're confident about the ABI compatibility and
are setting compatVersion we could also ship assembly publisher policy
files. Or perhaps this is something the the Mono.Addins assembly load
hook can handle automagically based on the compatVersion.

IMO either of these would be preferable to holding back the assembly versions.

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Michael Hutchinson
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