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[Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>]

Am Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:37:24 +0200
schrieb "Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" <ruskie AT codemages.net>: 

> On 10:08:05 2008-08-26 Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
> > I still think that the hiding of the dependency is not the final
> > solution to this, but it would be a measure to minimize breakage (it
> > should be hidden with a note given about it).

> > What's nagging at the back of my head is the question of indirect
> > circular dependencies...
> > 
> 
> And do you have a suggestion on what to do?

Well, along the lines of yours; but with the same conclusion about that
being not near future with current cast handling.

I think the measure for _now_ would be to mark and first-cast-disable
the circular dependencies as such via special grimoire wrappers
over optional_depends (I don't see the point in non-optional
circular_depends ... how to fix that without installing binary
snapshots first?).
Indirect circular deps would have to be found and marked, too... I guess
one should be able to search for circles in the whole grimoire dependency
graph in an automated fashion anyway (some of you CS graduates must have
done something like this before, right?;-).


Alrighty then,

Thomas.

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