From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
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: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:27:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsj671euk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4m0c1jz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:15:12 +0900")
>> 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.
I partly agree, but mutual recursion between ELPA packages should be
pretty damn rare (as opposed to mutual recursion between individual
Elisp files), so I don't think it's worth worrying about it.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-11 23:27 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 [this message]
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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