Re: [Gretl-devel] Two GUI entry points for a package

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 05.12.2018 um 15:56 schrieb Sven Schreiber: >> Am 05.12.2018 um 15:54 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >>> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> One step further in this experiment: It seems that when A depends >>>> on B, the private functions of package B are still _not_ available >>>> in package A. (Right?) This is not too surprising, but in my case >>>> creates a problem.

> > Hi, when I wrote the other message on the users list about the SVECM > GUI right now I had another idea: > > What if something like a "deep dependence" between packages is > introduced

Interesting. But I think what you're describing could be done just in memory, without writing a temporary package file. The idea would be: 1) Load A.gfn as usual, detect deep-dependency on B. 2) Load B.gfn in a (new) "merge mode", whereby its public functions and added to A's public list and its private functions to A's private list. So package B is not really loaded as such, its content is just merged into that of A on the fly. A.gfn and B.gfn on disk would not be affected.