v1.0.0-alpha release doesn't contain System.Collections.Immutable

[davkean]

The release I downloaded from https://github.com/dotnet/codeformatter/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha, doesn't contain System.Collections.Immutable and hence crashes.

[jaredpar]

Need to update the release anyways. I will add this collection in.

[davkean]

It looks like you are relying on it being in the GAC, but VS owns that version and it might not match the version that you use.

[jaredpar]

@davkean no one owns the GAC. Everyone is equally free to destroy it ;)

[jaredpar]

@davkean turns out we are not relying on it to be in the GAC. Build expected it to be copy local like all of our other references. It just turns out that something else installed it into the GAC so naturally MSBuild decided to stop putting it in the output. Because what's installed in the GAC should definitely be changing what my build outputs are.

[davkean]

Side note, we've got a bug around this against the MSBuild team.

[jaredpar]

@davkean

Is it something they indicated they will fix? The behavior is actually really infectious and ends up affecting how Visual Studio projects generate reference entries in files.