Hi Daniel,

I thought you came up with a solution for this before: 
http://www.tigraine.at/2009/10/01/using-ilmerge-to-hide-your-dependencies/

Cheers
John




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From: Daniel Hölbling <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 9 September, 2010 8:08:10 AM
Subject: Crazy Idea to end dependency hell?

Ok, this sounds totally crazy. 
But what if we stop incrementing the assembly version number of Castle.Core 
unless there are breaking changes to it?
Currently there are like 3 different versions of Castle.Core out in the wild, 
and it's pretty tough to find 2 other OSS projects that agree on one shared 
version.
Since the loader only checks the version number, only labeling the build (with 
a 
2.5.version file in it's root or whatever), but leaving the assembly version at 
some fixed thing would mean: everyone can just drop in a newer Castle.Core in 
the lib directory and wouldn't have the need to recompile.

Whenever I did a custom compilation of other OSS frameworks against a newer 
Castle.Core it was literally exchanging the old dll with the new one and 
building the thing. I've never encountered breaking changes ever.

Especially with projects like nu that offer some metadata, and some good 
communication on our part this would really solve a lot of problems.

What do you think?

The disadvantages are there of course, but we can still set the FileVersion and 
also add the version to the description of the assembly. 

greetings Daniel
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