Re: [ANNOUNCE] Updated Packages Released.

R> ok what do we need to do to make the dependancy database better Stephen> Have one ... R> what files does the current one live in ?? Stephen> ... ./*-packages/*/Makefile. Stephen> I'm _not_ joking. Stephen> If you do a search on "dependency" and "python" in XEmacs beta a Stephen> couple years back, somebody (I think it was Charles Waldman) had a Stephen> script which checked the dependencies. It wasn't close to perfect, Stephen> but at least it would give you some idea. ok will have a look Stephen> I think that the basic things to do would be (1) make World, so you Stephen> have all the auto-autoloads files, then (2) grep for provides and Stephen> requires to link up the dependencies, and (3) grep for all the Stephen> autoloaded functions, and link up those dependencies. Maybe you Stephen> should also annotate links for macros and libraries defining macros, Stephen> because those are the ones that are really troublesome (compiled code Stephen> can't contain calls to macros, because they are open-coded). sounds like a job for a perl script Stephen> Once we've got the graph database, it should be relatively cheap Stephen> (time-wise) to update, package by package. we could stick the update mecanism in the build process, yes? -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>