Re: [Pnet-developers] The GAC, shared assemblies and assembly versioning

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:50 am, Jason King wrote:

> Given that PNET users have the freedom to install PNET and supporting
> libraries pretty much wherever they like, where does this leave the PNET
> implementation of the global assembly cache?  Is there even going to be
> one?

There is one now, of sorts.  Assemblies are organised into version-specific 
sub-directories underneath /usr/local/lib/cscc/lib.  All of the pnetlib 
assemblies are now compiled and installed with the correct framework version.  
Read the man page for "ilgac" for more information on how it works.

However, you don't have to use the cache.  You can put assemblies anywhere you 
like, either with or without version-dependent sub-directories.  As long as 
the engine can find them on the search path, it doesn't care how they got 
there.

Cheers,

Rhys.