[cap-talk] Application dependencies (was More Heresy: ACLs not inherently bad)

[Mark Miller]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk> wrote:

>
> (It is still possible to declare unnecessary dependencies. But there is
> an incentive not to since that will cause the app to fail to install on
> more machines. Also, it is easy for an automated tool to detect
> declared dependencies that are not used on a test run.)
>

Dependency coverage checking. Cool. It's hard for tests to get 100% code
coverage, but it should be easy to get 100% dependency coverage. When they
can't do so easily, probably something else is wrong. I like it.

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Cheers,
--MarkM
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