[ccan] bitmap/tal again

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Fri Sep 15 18:32:25 AEST 2017


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:03:55AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Hi, so I'd like to add the bitmap/tal submodule as discussed here:
> 
> https://github.com/rustyrussell/ccan/pull/60
> 
> but I'm not familiar enough with ccan dependency declarations yet :(
> 
> 1. Should the dependency on tal be declared in bitmap/_info or in
> bitmap/tal/_info?  The latter seems more natural, but for some reason
> the final pull request on github shows the former.  I don't know if
> that's something I did and Rusty didn't correct, or something that Rusty
> did.  (I also don't quite understand github, ARGH!)

In bitmap/tal/_info, definitely.  Putting it in bitmap/_info will
change the dependencies of the base bitmap module, not your new
submodule.

> 2. Does bitmap/tal need to declare dependency on bitmap, or is that
> automatic?  Or maybe the other way?  I tried to look at other submodules
> in the tree, but there are only a few and none that quite match the
> relationship between this proposed pair.

Looking at ccan/tal/str, looks like the surrounding module should be
explicitly listed in dependencies.

> 
> Well, if I know these 2 things it should get me started.
> 

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