dep-trace v. tsort (mac ports depends support)

[Ed Schouten]

Hi John,

* John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell <johnandsara2 at cox.net>, 20120303 15:17:
> Who knows to order depends so tsort can order them in non-topological
> order as output?  Who has time to SVG plot program compile order (or
> pkg) depends like airports and airplanes and draw arrows between
> them?
> 
> Another issue of pre-positioning each sublists in port files : you
> are SOL if there is any loss of order before tsort gets them.
> 
> Another issue (one port not knowing the full sublist of the other)
> (there are probably more I'll stop there).

But the point is that if applications are looking for such things, they
are typically implemented in a higher-level programming language that
allows them to implement such features themselves, instead of relying on
a 1980s command line tool.

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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