Re: [boost] [type_traits] Rewrite and dependency free version

Subject: Re: [boost] [type_traits] Rewrite and dependency free version
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-03 17:34:24

Stephen Kelly-2 wrote
> The point is: either Boost is prepared for declaring 'this group of
> headers 
> depends on that group' (and then taking advantage of the things that
> follow 
> that declaration), or it is not. 

Hmmmm - that thinking is probably a large part of the source our current
problems.  I'm guessing that the idea C++17 modules will have to be refined 
quite a bit before they can become useful.

> Serialization and Robert have been the biggest barriers to that because of 
> the cycle. There are other cycles, but that's been the most problematic
> one. 

as I said - I'm not seeing this.

> I was very sad when I saw that cycle in my analysis because I knew Robert 
> would not see the problem and would block any change with all available 
> energy and his fantasies about tracking header file dependencies and 
> imaginary tooling. 

LOL

> I tried to raise it as an issue anyway. Maybe in a year something will 
> change. It took a long time for anyone in this community to take any
> notice 
> of the concept of modularity at all, but now there seem to be a few people 
> who get it. That took many many months though... Why is that?

Maybe your argument isn't convincing?

Robert Ramey

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