Jay, In general, you sign assemblies because:
a) you want to to store them in the GAC => we don't see an immediate need to store our assemblies in the GAC b) to allow users to verify the publisher => our signing key would need to be public to allow users to build NAnt from source; hence anyone could have signed the NAnt assemblies I haven't checked if all third-party assemblies that we use are signed. If not, then signing our assemblies is a no-go anyway since all the assemblies referenced by a strongly named assembly must also be strongly named. Gert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Walker Sent: maandag 9 april 2007 18:07 To: nant-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [NAnt-users] Why aren't Nant / NantContrib Assemblies signed In our development organization we sign all our internally developed assemblies. A .net framework requirement of signed assemblies is that all references must also be signed. The Nant / NantContrib binaries are not signed which causes us a point of pain in that we now have to maintain the nant source, compile it, and sign it with a key in order to use the assemblies from our signed assemblies. It would be very helpful if the published binaries were signed. Is there a design justification for not signing the Nant framework / Contrib assemblies? Are there plans to sign the assemblies in the future? Thanks, Jay -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Why-aren%27t-Nant---NantContrib-Assemblies-signed-tf35 48011.html#a9904588 Sent from the NAnt - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NAnt-users mailing list NAnt-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ NAnt-users mailing list NAnt-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-users
