Georg Baum wrote:
Am Montag, 4. September 2006 22:48 schrieb Peter Kümmel:
Georg Baum wrote:
Why are circular dependencies a problem? It is a long time ago, but
IIRC I
created dlls with circular dependencies during my diplom thesis.
Georg
Yes, but this needs a two pass build process, which looks more
like a hack than a good solution.
And isn't a circular dependency an indicator for an imperfect design?
Depends. In my case there was some circularity in the problem itself (could
even lead to infinite loops if not correctly used), so it made sense. In
the case of LyX I think that it simply is a mix of different designs
(frontend as library vs. kernel as library).
That's exactly the problem indeed. My earlier cleanup work is heading
toward "the frontend use the kernel as a library" design. Once this is
achieved, splitting out the toolkit specific frontend should be easy. So
clearly the first candidate for a new dll is the code in frontend/qt4/.
The controller will need some cleanup before it could be split up.
We should probably decide to
only use one, but IMHO we should first finish the unicode stuff.
Indeed.
Abdel.
