assembly hell
Assembly Hell - Chris asked about the “Assembly Hell” mention the other day. I don’t know for certain, but I assume that the author of the e-mail was making a reference to “DLL Hell”. This is the affectionate name that has been given to the problems people have with conflicting versions of DLLs. Assemblies are one of the things that will supposedly save us from DLL hell. Unfortunately, I am still pretty confused by all of the different technologies involved in dealing with code library compatibility. Some of the terms cropping up are:
- Fusion Manifest
- Assembly Manifest
- Side-by-side (SxS)
- Strong Name
- Primary Interop Assembly
- Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
There are lots of things that require digital signatures and version checks now. I waste a lot of time these days trying to form a coherent picture of how all of this stuff works. I will put together some notes here when I figure it all out.
This news about news is priceless. Newspapers are complaining that they will be running out of money due to the WTC bombing — because they had to waste too much effort and space printing news instead of printing ads! This is from news media who are still having trouble with the most basic of facts, confusing Afghanistan with the Middle East or the Taliban with Arabs. Watching the coverage, it is clear that these “reporters” are in way over their heads when it comes to bona fide reporting. Just letting the pools of “shared” reporters from these mega-merged media houses do their jobs is better than any misinformation campaign that the Department of Defense could dream up.
Lots of people are worried about the economy. What’s the worst that could happen? Imagine the headline, “Nasdaq loses 6,000; Dow de-listed from NYSE.”