Brendan Eich wrote:
>> (Warren was right; waterson shouldn't have removed the REQUIRES
>> requirement!)
>
>
> But waterson had a point: IIRC, REQUIRES worked only on Unix, so hackers
> working only on other platforms tended to break Unix builds routinely.
> I say when we revive REQUIRES, we should revive it in a cross-platform
> fashion. How hard is that?
>
Yes, I like this suggestion the best so far. Someone suggested
using a mechanism like the mac manifest file, that works for me.
Maybe we could add a test in the build or tinderbox to catch
errors/changes in dependencies.
-Chris
