Build: generate dependency maps

[James Burke]

It would be useful if the build system could generate a dependency map that specifies what modules depend on what other modules.

This could then be used for some quick build optimizations: detecting what files changed since last build, then figure out what layers/files needed to be rebuilt. That rebuild process is probably a different ticket -- the first building block is building the dependency maps.

[Dustin Machi]

I build one of these around the time of DDD using the build libs and js. You can find a copy here:

​http://dmachi.dojotoolkit.org/dojotoolkit/dojox/resourceLoader/generateDependencyMap.js

[ben hockey]

the latest build tool has an option to output dot files that describe the dependency graphs. see http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/build/transforms/depsDump.html#build-transforms-depsdump

[bill]

Probably you meant 1.7 for this. (Or 1.8 at the latest.)

[ben hockey]

sure - i definitely meant 1.7 but how do milestones matter for code that's already been released?

[bill]

Thanks. Well, we overload "milestone" to mean both "planned version to fix" (for open tickets) and "version fixed" for closed tickets.