RE: [boost] Is header dependency table useful?

From: Chris Little (cslittle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-01 13:50:54

I agree that this first is best.  I like this more compact form better than
the doxygen docs.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beman Dawes [mailto:beman_at_[hidden]]
> 
> Jeremy Siek wrote:
> 
>  >I agree that dependencies tables/diagrams are useful.
>  >
>  >It was helpful to see the complete list of directly and indirectly
>  >included headers for a particular file, however it is also 
> important to
>  >see the whole graph... not just the "flattened" version. Would
>  >it be possible to output the header dependencies in some sort
>  >of hierarchical view that shows this information? Perhaps
>  >just run BFS over the graph and output the resulting tree
> 
> I've written a little C++ program to do that.  Thanks to the 
> boost regular 
> expression library for making it easy!
> 
> There are three sets of options, each with two possibilities:
> 
> *  Show a header name:
>       -  once at highest level encountered
>       -  each time encountered
> 
> *  Include or exclude Standard Library headers
> 
> *  Include or exclude detail implementation headers
> 
> To see the result on boost/regex.hpp for all eight combinations, see
> http://www.egroups.com/files/boost/regex_dependencies.txt
> 
> I think I prefer the first combination: show names once, 
> include std names, 
> include implementation detail headers.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> --Beman
> 
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> 
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