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diff --git a/web/remap b/web/remap new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..28daca0acfc --- /dev/null +++ b/web/remap @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +* History of remapping + + The Mono runtime was shipped with the .NET 1.1 library APIs, + but until recently we did not have strong names or Global + Assembly Cache support so our libraries did not actually + encode the proper information about references. + + Lacking this, in the early days of Mono we hardcoded our code + generator to set the values to the version of the .NET 1.0 API + to allow code to move back and forth between Windows and Linux. + + With the deployment of the GAC to Mono we no longer distribute + assemblies without version information, and they are only + available through a versioned directory. + + To assist people in migrating their applications from the + pre-Beta rollout of Mono, the runtime has a special feature to + remap references to the System.* assemblies with version 3300 + to version 5000 but a warning is displayed: + + <pre> + Compat mode: the request from XXXX to load YYYY was remapped (http://www.go-mono.com/remap.html) + </pre> + + To solve this issue, use a new version of Mono to rebuild the + program listed as XXXX, this will remove the warning. + + Alternatively, if you do not have the source, you can set the + environment variable MONO_SILENT_WARNING to eliminate those + messages: + + <pre> + export MONO_SILENT_WARNING=1 + </pre> + + |