[Python.NET] Do assemblies need to be placed into the GAC

[Felix McAllister]

Brian,

Thanks for that. We don't currently put our assemblies into the GAC because 
our ASP.NET app can (theoretically) support multiple versions on the one 
server machine. Each version lives in a separate sub-directory that then 
contains a 'bin' directory for the assembly DLLs.

Although you *can* put multiple versions of the same component into the GAC 
(as long as the AssemblyVersion number is different), how would Python.NET 
distinguish these?

Felix.

>From: "Brian Lloyd" <brian at zope.com>
>To: "Felix McAllister" <felix_mcallister at hotmail.com>,   
><pythondotnet at python.org>
>Subject: RE: [Python.NET] Do assemblies need to be placed into the GAC
>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:30:34 -0500
>
> > I'd like to use PythonNet to script some .NET assemblies we have. Must I
> > place these into the GAC? I've tried to put the python script
> > into the same
> > directory as the assembly DLL but this doesn't work:
>
>Hi Felix -
>
>Right now to import an assembly it either needs to be in the GAC
>or in the "application directory" or a subdirectory thereof.
>
>When running python, the application directory is the directory
>where python.exe lives, not the place where the script you are
>running lives.
>
>One of the things I want to do for the final is see if there is
>a way to have the assembly loader use the python path (sys.path)
>when looking for assemblies.
>
>
>Brian Lloyd        brian at zope.com
>V.P. Engineering   540.361.1716
>Zope Corporation   http://www.zope.com
>
>

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