[Opensim-users] Proposal for removing "ERROR: There was an error while scanning assembly:" message

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Sean Dague wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 08:58:46PM +0200, Stefan Andersson wrote:
>> Justin,
>>  
>> First: we should strive to have one system/paradigm to maintain plugins. (We were supposed to have one system/paradigm to handle config files too, but we've all seen how far we've come on that...)
>>  
>> Second: A plugin handling infrastructure ain't no rocket science; and should not be construed as such. If we gave our current module system some love (as in refactoring and care) I'm pretty sure it can be made into something sexy, simple and solid.
>>  
>> Whatever we do, we should support
>> a) pick-up loading of modules (shared/non-shared region,and
>> application) from one designated pick-up directory
>> b) explicit loading of modules (shared/non-shared region,and
>> application) via path in config file
> 
> One of the other nice things the Mono.Addin system gives us if we lean
> on it more is an online repository module, including publishing of
> addins to the repo(s), and installation / enablement from there.
> 
> I think if we manage to work with the Mono.Addin guys to help us get it
> fixed for our short comings, it is the best approach here.  I just fired
> off an email to their google group asking about the ERROR issue and the
> multiple directory issue to see if there is anything useful that we
> might be able to do there.

 From the reply at

http://groups.google.com/group/mono-addins/browse_thread/thread/3dba0584b8a4f00c#

it looks like using directories other than bin/ should be possible.  I 
still don't particularly like the codebase but I will go back and have 
another look at this issue soon - I based my understanding of the addins 
xml files on an initial reading of the code, which is not always a good 
thing to do.

Thanks Sean.

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