Re: Finding Circular Dependencies

[Eric Melski]

Alexander Kriegisch wrote:

> Both, optionally, if you ask me. The full set of graphs as an XML
> structure would be nice as a minimum, so I could filter out what I do
> not need. A second option to limit the output to just the target(s)
> specified/checked during an invocation would come in handy, too.

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Electric Accelerator from Electric Cloud can produce an
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as well as integrating recursive makes, so that you can
see the relationship between parent and child makes.

You can manipulate the XML directly yourself, or you can
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to dig into it in a variety of ways.

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Cheers,

Eric Melski
Senior Software Engineer
Electric Cloud, Inc.