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Design Considerations for TriBITS
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Some of the basic requirements and design goals for TriBITS are outlined in
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the `TriBITS Overview`_ document.
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.. ToDo: Discuss design requirements for TriBITS in more detail.
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As stated in `TriBITS Dependency Handling Behaviors`_, `No circular
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dependencies of any kind are allowed`_. That is, no TriBITS package (or
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its tests) can declare a dependency on a `downstream`_ package, period! To
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some, this might seem over constraining but adding support for circular
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dependencies to the TriBITS system would add significant complexity and
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space/time overhead and is a bad idea from a basic software engineering
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perspective (see the *ADP (Acyclic Dependencies Principle)* in `Software
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Engineering Packaging Principles`_). From a versioning, building, and
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change-prorogation perspective, any packages involved in a circular dependency
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would need to be treated as a single software engineering package anyway so
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TriBITS forces development teams to glob all of this stuff together into a
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single `TriBITS Package`_ when cycles in software exist. There are
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numerous wonderful ways to break circular dependencies between packages that
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are proven and well established in the SE community (for example, see [`Agile
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Software Development, 2003`_]).
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.. ToDo: Discuss why it is a good idea to explicitly list packages instead of
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.. just searching for them. Hint: Think performance and circular
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.. dependencies!
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