Detect circular dependencies in `mix xref graph`

[Nathan Long]

It would be cool if `mix xref graph` could alert about circular dependencies between modules, since they generally indicate a problem with the design.

[José Valim]

I wholeheartedly agree. Today you can build it yourself by using the "Mix.Tasks.Xref.calls" API. I would love to see a small project that implements it and that we can run in our actual projects to see how good or bad the data is (for example, are there false positives? false negatives?). And how fast it runs (that will help decide if we should run it always or not).

José Valim

www.plataformatec.com.br

Skype: jv.ptec

Founder and Director of R&D

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:00 PM Nathan Long <h...@nathanmlong.com> wrote:

It would be cool if `mix xref graph` could alert about circular dependencies between modules, since they generally indicate a problem with the design.

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