On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On Apr 23, Robby Findler wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Michael Sperber >> <sper...@deinprogramm.de> wrote: >> > If so, is there documentation or anything that describes what >> > dependencies are OK and which one's aren't? >> >> I believe Eli maintains this information. Generally the way it works >> is someone adds require somewhere that breaks things and Eli lets >> them know when a script fails somewhere. I don't know if the precise >> list is available on the web, but I'm sure Eli would be more than >> happy to make it be so if it isn't. > > * This is in iplt/build/distribution-specs. > > * Yes, there is a dependency now, this is bad -- but making it worse > is not a good idea. (You can see this by the fact that > "test-engine" appears in dr-extras instead of plt-extras)
I do not believe Mike has actually made it worse in any interesting way. It will require a few more Emacs macros to undo his changes, but that can only happen when the larger problem is fixed. Put another way: we should not stand in the way of Mike for this reason. It was not his doing that put us in this bind so we should not punish him! > * There is another issue here which is that the teaching languages are > intended to be used by themselves, are used in a handin server > situation, etc. Adding a preference-dependent option to this kind > of thing is bad. The word "adding" is misused here, iiuc. Whatever thing needs to be done so that check-expect works in the handin server still needs to be done and what Mike has done does not changed that. Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
