ciruclar dependencies (was: feature/gbuild_merge needs testing)

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Fri May 25 08:16:24 PDT 2012


On 05/25/2012 01:28 PM, David Tardon wrote:
> At the end, an anecdotical evidence about how far we progressed into
> gbuild land: the move of gtk/kde file pickers from fpicker to vcl
> introduced a dependency loop, because the pickers in vcl depend on
> headers from fpicker, but fpicker already (indirectly) depends on vcl.

What is our attitude towards circular module dependencies in an 
all-gbuild scenario?  My understanding is that technically they do not 
pose a problem.  But how about them from a hygiene point of view?  (And 
if we want to avoid them, would there be technical measures to do so?)

Stephan


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