On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 14:06:43 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Note that many of template emission issues that affect "plain" separate compilation are likely to affect package-based static libraties as well, thus in context of this thread distinction is not very important.
Yes, you can get similar issues with package libraries, but only if the packages are mutually dependent on each other. Think of that for a moment, no package manager allows you to have cycles in your dependencies.
The case where you do compile packages with circular dependencies seems to mostly come from artificially splitting packages to deal with OOM, and we better address that at it's root.
In general you save many troubles with a library b/c you always link with all objects that were compiled (so it's only important that a template was emitted but not into which object).
