Description You suddenly have a curious aspiration to create a package installer that can handle dependencies. You want to be able to give the installer a list of packages with dependencies, and have it install the packages in order such that an install won’t fail due to a missing dependency. This exercise is to write the code that will determine the order of install.
A C# utility that determines the installation order for packages based on their dependencies.
It also detects cycles in dependencies and prevents invalid installation orders.
This project demonstrates dependency resolution, cycle detection, and topological ordering in C#.
- Determines installation order for packages respecting dependencies
- Detects cycles in the dependency graph and throws meaningful exceptions
- Handles packages with no dependencies
- Provides a clean, comma-separated output of installable packages
- Built with clean code principles and proper validation
string[] dependencies = new string[]
{
"A: B",
"B: C",
"C: ",
"D: B"
};
var installer = new PackageDependencyInstaller.PackageInstaller();
string installOrder = installer.PrintDependencies(dependencies);
Console.WriteLine("Installation order:");
Console.WriteLine(installOrder);