[Mono-dev] Mono.Security.StrongName.Verify Assemblies In Memory?

2008-04-07 Thread Jim Purbrick (Babbage)
We ship assemblies around over the network a lot and would like to be  
able to use Mono.Security.StrongName to verify assemblies without  
writing them to disk.

Would it be OK to add Mono.Security.StrongName.Verfiy(Stream) and  
refactor some of the internals of Mono.Security.StrongName to  
facilitate this (using Streams internally, instead of FileStreams).

If we made these changes, could we get them merged back in to Mono?

Cheers,

Jim
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Re: [Mono-dev] Mono.Security.StrongName.Verify Assemblies In Memory?

2008-04-07 Thread Sebastien Pouliot
Hey Jim,

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 00:08 +0100, Jim Purbrick (Babbage) wrote:
> We ship assemblies around over the network a lot and would like to be  
> able to use Mono.Security.StrongName to verify assemblies without  
> writing them to disk.
> 
> Would it be OK to add Mono.Security.StrongName.Verfiy(Stream) and  
> refactor some of the internals of Mono.Security.StrongName to  
> facilitate this (using Streams internally, instead of FileStreams).
> 
> If we made these changes, could we get them merged back in to Mono?

Best answer is "probably" since Mono.Security API is public and stable.
So it's possible to add things we can't remove features (even if we
don't like them ;-). 

But if you keep this in mind while doing the changes, if they don't
introduce other problems (e.g. new dependencies) and provides unit tests
then it should not be a problem to merge things back.

Sebastien

> Cheers,
> 
> Jim
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