Re: 21.0 showstopper bytecompile-time -vs- run-time dependencies
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:59:11AM +0200, Oscar Figueiredo wrote:
The "full requires for maximal operation" could certainly
be determined
automatically. I doubt that the minimal runtime requires can. For instance,
EUDC can use three different backends none of which is strictly required. Each
of them depends on some other package. I can't see how a tool could determine
automatically which requirements are really necessary and which just enhance
functionality without my writing it explicitely.
We may be able to extract an interesting approximation by looking for
things like boundp 'package, no?
OG.