Re: [boost] Header dependency table

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-08 05:48:10

From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
>
> Step back a bit.  Look at the big picture.  What question are we trying to
> answer for users?  What is the use scenario?
>
> Nico Josuttis posed the original challenge.  It went something like this:
>
> "Suppose I'm considering using a Boost library. What other libraries will
> also have to be installed because the lib I'm interested in is dependent
on
> them?
>
> That's the question we need to be able to answer, and it seems library
> rather than header oriented.

The Boost "install" unit is the header, since there is no way to
download/install an individual library.