Adding /etc/mono/config.d

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Aug 24 12:38:37 UTC 2006


On Thursday 24 August 2006 08:29, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> AFAICT, they're not _really_ config files.  A config file is something
> that a person might be expected to change.  Instead, these are more like
> data files which tell mono how to do it's native dll importing by
> mapping a generic name (say libc) to an actual shared library name that
> exists on the system (libc.so.6)
>
> Also, it's hardly littered across the filesystem -- they end up
> under /usr/lib/mono/gac/<package>/<version> which seems sane as well
>
> Think of it more like the pkgconfig "config" files (which are just data)
> as opposed to config files in the httpd.conf sense

I suppose that makes it more reasonable.  Do we have this type of information 
anywhere in the wiki?  These design type things written up and explained 
might help to curb kneejerk reactions like the one I just had.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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