Annotate RAR SearchPaths added because they're "next to a reference" #9408
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Area: Logging
Iteration:2023December
Priority:3
Work that is nice to have
size:3
Task: Resolve Assembly References (RAR)
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If you have an assembly in a folder next to an explicitly referenced-by-path assembly, and also have a transitive or direct-by-name reference to it, it can be found next to the explicitly referenced-by-path assembly. But the logging only indicates that it was found "for SearchPath", which is confusing because that folder wasn't in RAR's input SearchPath.
For example, build this project from a Developer Command Prompt:
That produces this RAR snippet for Framework:
If the problem you're troubleshooting is "why did this file get resolved here?" there's a lot of confusion looking at that. If it could say something like
it might be clearer (but any improvement would be good).
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