From: Boris <d12frosted@gmail.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Runtime package dependencies and compilation order
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 14:19:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACY1KR1jsV2184e7y=i0FTRGrgK2ETGbTkj8CPCr1EZtOXPYHw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn3mi8sy.fsf@web.de>
Hey Michael,
Thanks for your reply.
> Is this an exclusive "or"? If not, why not just depend on B _and_ C?
It's not exclusive, it's disjunction. I don't want to depend on both of
them because they are huge. And some people would not like having orphan
package to be installed as dependency.
> ...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.
Good question. And I am not sure. I'll look into it. Just out of curiosity.
> In the other case I cannot suggest anything better than what you already
> did.
Alright, then I'll just implement my solution. In any case, I like it. Just
wanted to hear others opinion.
Thanks again and best regards,
Boris
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:47 PM Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
wrote:
> 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:[~2016-06-01 14:19 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
2016-06-01 14:19 ` Boris [this message]
[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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