Cadillac at 23:00, 23 August 2021

2021-08-23T23:00:23Z

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	If required, additional noncircular dependency paths may be added (ui may depend on network).		If required, additional noncircular dependency paths may be added (ui may depend on network).
	I've never documented this properly (I thought leaving out include directories out of the makefiles on purpose was enough) so it's of course entirely my fault if someone does not honor this.		I've never documented this properly (I thought leaving out include directories out of the makefiles on purpose was enough) so it's of course entirely my fault if someone does not honor this.

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Dlh at 06:41, 22 October 2005

2005-10-22T06:41:58Z

New page

[http://forums.armagetronad.net/viewtopic.php?t=2054 Forum Topic]

''z-man 'sez''

I just wanted to bring to your attention that AA has a well defined dependency structure sorted by the subdirectories below src:

<pre>
tools depends on nothing.
network depends on tools
render depends on tools
ui depends on tools and render
engine depends on all of the above
tron depends on all of the above
</pre>

As you see, there are no circular dependencies, and that is important to the health of the project. No file in tools should ever include anything from tron. Standard dependency reversal techniques should be used when, say, you want to trigger a game event when a new user logs in: callbacks are a possible choice.
If required, additional noncircular dependency paths may be added (ui may depend on network).
I've never documented this properly (I thought leaving out include directories out of the makefiles on purpose was enough) so it's of course entirely my fault if someone does not honor this.

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Cadillac at 23:00, 23 August 2021

Dlh at 06:41, 22 October 2005