Re: [boost] Development and Release Practices

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-08 09:09:13

on Tue Aug 07 2007, Beman Dawes <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Tue Aug 07 2007, Beman Dawes <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>>>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>>>> A draft "Development and Release Practices" document is up on
>>>>> the Wiki: 
>>>>> http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Development_And_Release_Practices
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Comments welcomed!
>>>> Overall this sounds good. The one thing I'm not sure about is the
>>>> introduced dichotomy between core and non-core libraries. Why not
>>>> simply talk about prerequisite libraries as those libraries
>>>> others depend on ? This reuses the technical term 'prerequisite',
>>>> and doesn't overload the meaning of 'core'. In other words,
>>>> whether or not a library belongs into the 'core' (whatever that
>>>> is), and whether it is a prerequisite for another library, are
>>>> two distinct and orthogonal questions.
>>> Ah! I wasn't happy with 'core' either, but failed to come up with 
>>> anything better. "Prerequisite" is definitely better.
>> 
>> I would use "dependent" and "dependency."
>
> The trouble with those is that they describe a library that depends on
> another. 

No, a dependent depends upon a dependency.  This is the terminology
used in build systems.  As confusable as it may be, it makes little
sense to invent new terms IMO.
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