Re: [boost] Proposal: Identifying libraries

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-17 11:05:00

At 08:59 AM 12/17/2002, Peter Dimov wrote:

 >From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
 >> At 01:10 PM 12/16/2002, Peter Dimov wrote:
 >>
 >>  >but how does this affect (implementation detail) headers that aren't
 >>  >necessarily part of a specific library?
 >> boost/detail/lightweight_mutex.hpp,
 >>  >boost/assert.hpp, boost/throw_exception.hpp, for example.
 >>
 >> Good question.  It seems to me every header should have a home
 >> library.  Probably "utility" for your examples.
 >
 >My concern is that "utility" would be listed as a dependency, and this
 >isn't really the case.

Good point. Maybe the default should be to report dependencies on a per 
library basis, but that there was a way to say "report this one on a per 
header basis."

--Beman