On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:23:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I wonder how possible it would be to reduce the dependency complexities > in a project as large as KDE. Where I used to work, that was something > that started to bite as at one point - ~500K lines of code, and we did a > little work to separate out the lowest "lib" layer, but always had > deadlines to work to, and therefore had difficulty getting management > approval for restructuring work. KDE is open source/ community though. > > every layer can only depend on layers below > > libs layer is lowest > > rules for threading code got interesting (locking dependencies/ > requirements I think) - I could track this down if someone needs 'em I think getting rid of the libtool recursive linking might help this problem as well. As I understand it the libtool maintainer is working on getting that into the main libtool source. Chris
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