I remember that MSBuild originally did not use the GAC. Then they changed 
their minds. A brief summary of the situation is given in 
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/MSBuild.MsbuildAssembliesInTheGac.
I do wish that they had elaborated on the problems that putting the assemblies 
in the GAC created.


On Sunday 26 June 2005 3:27 pm, Ben Maurer wrote:

> Of course, one other advantage of non-gac'd installs is that they are
> more relocatable. In fact, you could do xcopy deploy that way. It really
> only makes sense to use the GAC if what you are deploying is a shared
> library, right?
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