Re: Mapping dependencies between Gnome modules

[Daniel Dewey <ddewey sei cmu edu>]

Daniel M German wrote:
>  Dave> Hi Daniel,
>
>  Dave> Have a look at jhbuild,n which will give you this dependency
>  Dave> information, as well as with "blessed" external dependencies.
>
>  Dave> Cheers,
>  Dave> Dave.
>
>
> Check this paper:
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> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1339262.1339488&coll=&dl=ACM
>
> It explains where the data is. available also here:
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> http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/temp/wcre.pdf
>
> A GSofC student is improving the software I wrote to do this. It should
> be available in few weeks. In the meantime run dpkg. It has an option to
> create (what I call) the instance of the dependency graph for a given
> installation (withouth what I call abstract dependencies).
>
>  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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>  Dave> -- 
>  Dave> Dave Neary
>  Dave> GNOME Foundation member
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>   

Hi,

Thanks for the dpkg tip, but I have found that Debian packages and Gnome 
modules don't tend to correspond particularly closely to one another 
(there is often no Debian package for a Gnome module). That software 
sounds great for Debian dependencies though.

I was able to find the XML files JHBuild uses for Gnome's dependencies 
and that takes care of my needs for now:
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/jhbuild/trunk/modulesets/

~Daniel

ps- I also got an error (pdf was corrupted) on 
http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/temp/wcre.pdf