Re: More Windows stuff ... Gorm works ... sort of

[Alex Perez]

Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 22.03.05 um 16:50 Uhr schrieb Nicola Pero:
>
> > The other obvious reasons is that building the palettes depends on
> > building Gorm.app (to resolve the symbols), and building Gorm.app depends
> > on building the palettes (to copy them into the Gorm.app bundle), so you
> > get into a nasty building organization as you have now
>
>
> This is called a circular dependency which you have to avoid in software 
> design. The Solution here is using the dependency inversion principle: 
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=dependency+inversion+principle 
> . And it's always a good idea to have a read on software design patterns.

Yes, I agree that circular dependencies are bad. I think this is also 
known to be a major problem under OS X, because of the binary format 
they use.