New Post: How to add the ClearScript.V8 assemblies into GAC

Hi Taritsyn,
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It seems to me that this is not correct. It is suitable for WebMatrix sites, but not for ASP.NET web applications.

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We've received confirmation from others (e.g., here, here, and here) that it does work. The V8Proxy loader supports this setup by attempting to load the V8 and ClearScriptV8 assemblies from AppDomain.BaseDirectory.
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Unfortunately, the AppDomainSetup.PrivateBinPath property cannot be changed for the current AppDomain.

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Ah, that is indeed unfortunate. We'll investigate the assembly resolver option. To be honest, we have yet to understand the ramifications; e.g., the behavior when multiple resolvers are installed.
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Problem is not the size of assembly. Simply divide to 3 assemblies, it would be more correct (from the point of view of creating NuGet packages). In future will be easier to add a new script engines (for example, Chakra or SpiderMonkey).

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Yes, that's a good point. There are advantages to a minimal assembly count - deployment simplicity and startup performance - but they're diminished in ASP.NET environments. In any case, we probably won't do any major refactoring until we add support for more script engines.

Thanks again for your input!