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Re: Treatise on require
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Treatise on require |
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Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:45:24 +0100 |
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Bill Wohler <address@hidden> writes:
> Over time, nasty circular dependencies have reared their ugly head in
> MH-E. For example, mh-e requires just about other file and just about
> every other file requires mh-e. Just for fun there are mini-loops with
> mh-customize and and mh-utils. This is currently handled by putting the
> call to provides (in mh-e.el) before the various calls to require (whose
> files require mh-e).
IMHO in the long run it would be better to reorganize the files to remove
the circular dependencies. For example the interdependency between
mh-customize and mh-utils appears to be gratuitous judging just from the
file names. Maybe the common functions should be factored out to
different/new file.
Btw, looking at mh-utils.el, I don't think it should use `load' for
optional dependencies. The libraries may already be loaded and should not
be reloaded just by loading mh-utils. For example, tool-bar is already
preloaded in most configurations.
Andreas.
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