Thanks Brett, I'll take a look. 

John



On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Brett Porter <[email protected]> wrote:

> I had a go at removing it (see the newly commented code in the utility), but 
> it didn't pan out well. So for now, yes, it needs to be on the path - but I 
> hope not for long. There's a few pieces of code in there trying to figure out 
> if a reference is in the GAC from just a name that is imperfect. Another 
> thing this is needed is to use AppDomains so all the libraries aren't loaded 
> up into the addin's assembly space.
> 
> - Brett
> 
> On 02/07/2011, at 3:12 PM, John Fallows wrote:
> 
>> Devs,
>> 
>> In one of the recent releases a lot of work was done on the plugins to
>> ensure that the environment PATH did not need to be set in order to locate
>> various utilities such as csc.exe, etc, so I don't have them on my path any
>> more to avoid unanticipated side effects.
>> 
>> However, it seems that the VisualStudio ProjectImporter Engine project fails
>> to build due to an exception in GacUtility when it is unable to locate
>> gacutil.exe because it is not on the path.
>> 
>> Is the PATH requirement for gacutil.exe intentional?
>> 
>> tc,
>> -john.
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