Re: RE: .NET Fit Deployment

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:20:49 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.tools.fit.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31 July, 2003, Charlie Poole wrote:
> The GAC is not to be used lightly, since it makes installation more 
> complex.
> Life is easier when assemblies that an app needs are simply installed 
> with it in it's directory. Some people try to share everything across multiple 
> apps in a product line, leading to the need to update everything at once.
> 
> However, a test utility has a particular kind of sharing that's needed. 
> The test runner must have access to certain core classes and so must the tests:
> in this case the user-written fixtures. It would be nice to be able to just
> install fit and reference fit.dll on a "wherever it is" basis, which you can
> do when it's in the GAC.

If we go this way, I'd like to leave both GAC'd and unGAC'd options in the build script. At present, we don't really have a particularly complex runner, although I know Ward has interesting ideas about where to take that.

> Anyway, that's probably more than you wanted to know. I take it you guys had
> not considered it, so I may experiment with it. I notice that the latest
> download seems to be from back in October... is any more development 
> being done on the C# version of Fit?

nfit has now been set up as a sourceforge project (I'll add you Jim, as soon as you let me know your sourceforge ID). I've done a little tidy up but haven't really got started.

S.