Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 27 15:07, Ralph Hempel wrote:
Dependency loops are already detected, just the result is less than desirable. It's a stadard problem of loops in directed graphs. There's no way to create a topological sort order and the result of any sort algorithm is basically not determinate. So you have to put some additional heuristic into the algorithm to get a sort order you desire.
Ah. Perhaps I should dig into Volume 3 of my Knuth books..... For what it's worth, I think that your approach of tackling the algorithm and making it run correctly is going to get a better end result than hacking at the description file. Cheers, Ralph