From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el can't install a circular depend and it should be able to.
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:47:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gnfmo83.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmwwf1eqt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:43:22 -0500")
>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
Tom> It was intended to do a topological sort of the graph and activate
Tom> packages from the bottom up. If this isn't working then there is a bug.
Stefan> Do we actually need such a topological sort? I mean the only
Stefan> place where ordering might matter is when loading the autoloads
Stefan> file, AFAICT (for all other steps like download, unpack, compile
Stefan> the order in which packages are processed doesn't matter).
I thought byte-compiling one package could require that package's
dependencies, say via eval-when-compile.
For downloading and unpacking, I agree, order doesn't matter.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-14 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-04 0:24 package.el can't install a circular depend and it should be able to Nic Ferrier
2013-01-04 14:26 ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-04 17:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-11 23:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-12 2:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-12 14:14 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-01-12 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-12 16:27 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-01-13 0:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-14 21:47 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-01-15 0:00 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-15 1:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-15 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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