Re: ’inherit’ and list-dependent (was Re: branch master updated: gnu: emacs: Add TREE_SITTER_GRAMMAR_PATH support.)

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 at 23:55, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

>> However, we could imagine to use ’package/inherit’ or another variant
>> instead of plain ’inherit’ for creating these inherited packages.  Doing
>> so, we could collect some information, e.g., in the field ’properties’,
>> which could be used then by --list-dependent.
>
> In effect that means keeping back the chain of inherited objects, which
> would lead to space leaks.

[...]

> I agree it’d be nice to solve.  I can’t think of a good way to do that
> though.

What do you mean by “space leaks”?

Well, we already have ways to create variants collecting information, as
’package-with-python2’ or ’package-with-ocamlX.0Y’, and
’package/inherit’ is somehow another one.

Why would it not be a good way?


Cheers,
simon