Re: [DotGNU]Concept: Box files

[Peter Minten]

Gopal V wrote:
> 
> If memory serves me right, Peter Minten wrote:
> > The box files on a system are managed by an application called 'Warehouse'.
> 
> Would that be something like a Global Assembly Cache as used by MS.NET ?

I don't know the MS stuff very well, but it seems to me that Warehouse could act
like a cache for assemblies with a fixed period of time an assembly may be
unused before it is uninstalled (the temp dirs are deleted).

> > Warehouse can also do a cleanup scan in which it can suggest the removal of
> > library boxes which no other box needs, bye DLL hell (note that the DLL hell
> > can come to GNU/Linux with IL libraries carrying the .dll extension).
> 
> Well , how about multiple versions of the same library needed for running
> two programs .... and how about local compiled stuff ...

Multiple versions: if the versions are different in a way that the app build for
the oldest version can't use the newest version both versions of the lib are
installed, otherwise the lib is replaced.

Greetings,

Peter