Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes: > taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes: > >> It would be great if the whole circular import problem could somehow be >> solved by Guile (no idea how feasible it is). > > I think we should eliminate circular module dependencies. They cause > nasty problems, and there's no compelling reason that we need them, > since our package dependency graph is necessarily a DAG. > > We can eliminate the circular dependencies by breaking up our package > modules into smaller pieces. One package per module would trivially > accomplish this, although I guess that's going too far. > > We might want to think about what tools could help us discover a much > smaller number of package splittings that would eliminate the cycles, > and to ensure that they would never again be introduced.
There might also be non-package module cycles, or more likely, cycles involving package and non-package modules. I think I encountered the latter while sniffing around, though I don't remember exactly. These might be less trivial to fix... Just an FYI. Otherwise +1. I don't know when my productivity will go back up (health issues), but when it does and nobody's done it yet I might work on such a tool for package modules. If anyone else wants to then don't hold back though. Taylan
