On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:58:27 +0100 Mario Domenech Goulart <ma...@parenteses.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:55:09 +0200 Lassi Kortela <la...@lassi.io> wrote: > >> I have a .egg file for a portable Scheme program substantial enough >> and fast-moving enough that the dependencies are constantly getting >> out of sync. >> >> Would it be possible to add a feature something like this? >> >> (extension foo.bar >> (source "bar.sld") >> (auto-dependencies) ; <-- The new feature. >> (csc-options "-R" "r7rs" "-X" "r7rs")) >> >> auto-dependencies would compute the deps by traversing the given >> source file. It would look at csc-options and notice that r7rs is >> being used. Then expect an R7RS-style define-library form in bar.sld, >> look at (import ...) libraries matching those in the .egg and add >> those to component-dependencies, as well as traverse all (include >> "...") and add those to (source-dependencies ...). >> >> If csc-options doesn't say r7rs, it would do the same, but expect >> Chicken module syntax instead. >> >> I wrote some code to grovel r7rs libraries, and there's probably >> similar stuff in csm and Akku.scm too. So if the feature is ok we >> could stitch together the implementation from these. > > My take on that as a user: I care about dependencies and tend to avoid > eggs with many dependencies. If I see `(auto-dependencies)' in an egg > file, I don't know the dependencies of that egg. I would not like that. > > Also, that would break the [reverse] dependency ranks of salmonella > reports. Examples: > > * > http://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/master/gcc/linux/x86-64/2022/11/21/salmonella-report/ranks/deps.html > * > http://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/master/gcc/linux/x86-64/2022/11/21/salmonella-report/ranks/rev-deps.html Also the [reverse] dependency graph pages. Examples: * http://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/master/gcc/linux/x86-64/2022/11/21/salmonella-report/dep-graphs/srfi-99.html * http://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/master/gcc/linux/x86-64/2022/11/21/salmonella-report/rev-dep-graphs/srfi-99.html All the best. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario