----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I guess my earlier 'test' didn't really *test* what I thought it was > testing...sorry for the trouble, folks.
No problem, all's forgiven 'cause you found a bug :}. > BUT: the dependency loop NEEDS to be there -- becuase those packages ARE > mutually dependent. It's just that setup needs to traverse the loop > only once and terminate. :-) It's actually a little harder than that. You need to either a) limit the depth of recursion/stack growth b) build a network of visited nodes and only recurse into unvisited nodes. I've implemented a), which has the downside that in corner cases, (in this case, a chain 6 requires: statements long) packages may not get grabbed. Mind you, this means that of those 7 packages, the user must select ONLY the first one, and no other packages can require: any package further down the chain than the 2nd one. I.e. not much of an issue :}. However b) is the proper solution IMO, but more time is needed to do it right, so I'm leaving that for another day. Rob
