Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > 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/.
I have started with frontend/qt4/ but give up because qt4 needs several functions from the other libs. We must start at the bottom not at the top, and qt4 is at the top. > 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. > > -- Peter Kümmel
