[development] How to make better dependency checks in D5, D6, D7?

[Karoly Negyesi]

> Moshe pointed me to http://drupal.org/node/211182 which was dancing
> between D6 and D7 version.
> 
> The patch http://drupal.org/node/220945#comment-738292 uses an
> - Acyclic Directed Graph to find out the right order to enable/disable/uninstall
> - Topological Sorted List to do the actual work
> 
> (as nifty side effect is being able to create http://drupal.org/files/issues/graph.gif)

Hello, brother! Finally, I am not alone with speaking DAGs. Fine, fine. If you look into _module_build_dependencies in Drupal 6 you will find a fairly naive implementation to determine whether the dependency graph is acyclic or not and then drupal_install_modules has another naive implementation of topological sort. It should use DFS but -- I thought the graph is too small for that. I have DFS based topological sort in weights.php in my sandbox. Let's discuss more.

A very happy 
Karoly Negyesi
who is finally not alone with bringing graph theory to Drupal.