From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:15:12 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4m0c1jz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738yh10u9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
Tom Tromey writes:
> A real circular graph isn't supported. I guess it could be, though to
> me it seems like this would have to be some kind of packaging confusion.
Why is it confusion? Lisp environments have always supported mutual
recursion. I'll grant that it would normally be technically possible
to refactor the packages to avoid it at the library level, but it
might be administratively inconvenient due to separate maintainership
and the like, or simply an historical artifact that the maintainers
don't want to refactor immediately. I don't see why those cases
shouldn't be supported, although it might be appropriate to warn.
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-04 17:15 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 [this message]
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
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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