On Jan 29, 2008 12:56 AM, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2)  The most common mistake is forgetting about dependent actions when you do
> a complete override, and that's not documented anywhere.

Sure it's documented -- it's documented in the code.  I can't imagine
doing a complete override of a function and not actually looking to
see what happens in that function that I'm replacing.

> Some dependencies are more complicated, like testcover depends on code, then
> does some work, then "depends on" test when in reality it doesn't really
> depend on the test action but overrides its behavior.  testdb is similar.
> Either way, complex cases like this can still be handled, depends_for() is a
> convenience, not a replacement for depends_on().

Should depends_on change the list of dependencies?

David

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