Developing interdependent modules

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Tue Apr 10 16:18:07 BST 2007


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:06:41PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:53:37AM +0100, Leo Lapworth said:
> > I'm obviously missing something.. why not have two seperate modules?
> > Cal then requires and uses GData version X?
> That's what I want to do. But since I'll be developing both 
> simultaneously I want ::Calendar to pick up my working copy of ::GData 
> not the installed one.

That smells funny to me.  It tells me that they're not yet sufficiently
seperated.

I realise that you need something in the interim while you seperate them
(and symlinks would seem to be the way to go) but once they are seperate
then you shouldn't need to do that any more if they really have been
properly seperated.

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