Re: Mapping dependencies between Gnome modules

[Daniel Dewey <ddewey sei cmu edu>]

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Have a look at jhbuild,n which will give you this dependency
> information, as well as with "blessed" external dependencies.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> Daniel Dewey wrote:
>   
> > Hi guys! This list seems somewhat empty, but I'll give it a try anyway.
> >
> > I'm doing a bit of research on Gnome and the first thing I need to do is 
> > to map the dependencies between the modules (as listed on 
> > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/), so that I end up with a directed graph 
> > where there is an edge from A to B if A's correct functioning depends on 
> > the correct functioning of B.
> >
> > So far, I have considered a few approaches to getting this information. 
> > Since many distros include Gnome in their package systems, there is some 
> > dependency information there, but I have yet to find a distro whose 
> > packages correspond to Gnome's list of modules. For this reason, I'd 
> > like to analyze Gnome's code directly by checking out modules one at a 
> > time and extracting their dependencies... somehow. This is the step I'm 
> > currently on, and it's sort of complex; dependency information needs to 
> > be extracted from source files and configuration files, mostly, which is 
> > difficult.
> >
> > Anyone have any other ideas? Am I missing some other approach?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ~Daniel
> >
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Thanks Dave! This is the info I was looking for. Also, neat utility.
~Daniel