On Jun 7, 2012, at 12:39 AM, Jed Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > Completely wrong. hg is magic and looks through all the source code and > sees that I have referenced joe in petsc-dev and then deduces that joe must > be down in BuildSystem and checks for it there and then generates a useful > error message? > > It's okay for parents to manipulate their children, but not vice-versa. > Children should be ignorant of their surroundings, otherwise we'll be unable > to manage the complexity.
So we arbitrarily pretend a graph is a tree just to make our lives easier? >
