From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Boris <d12frosted@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Runtime package dependencies and compilation order
Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 16:47:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn3mi8sy.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACY1KR3_D1WPPv84VurMVX8A-ZoeamuJX-8SpyeX9VuA0BN3RQ@mail.gmail.com> (Boris's message of "Mon, 30 May 2016 09:05:00 +0000")
Boris <d12frosted@gmail.com> writes:
> Recently I've faced following problem. I have a package A that might
> depend on package B or (disjunction) package C.
Is this an exclusive "or"? If not, why not just depend on B _and_ C?
In the other case I cannot suggest anything better than what you already
did. Since AFACT, Emacs package management doesn't (yet?) allow
dependencies of type "X or Y" (unlike some OS). But I wonder...
> The problem comes when someone wants to use the part of package A that
> depends on package B - if package A is byte compiled before B, then some
> functionality doesn't work and you have to manually recompile A.
...is really the compilation order a problem, or the fact that A had
been compiled without B being _loaded_? Doesn't make much a difference
from the end user's view, though.
Regards,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-31 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-30 9:05 Runtime package dependencies and compilation order Boris
2016-05-31 14:47 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2016-06-01 14:19 ` Boris
[not found] ` <mailman.624.1464790782.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-01 15:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-06-01 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] <mailman.513.1464614585.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-30 13:40 ` Emanuel Berg
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