Re: [boost] [Modularization] A new approach to header modularization

Subject: Re: [boost] [Modularization] A new approach to header modularization
From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-28 20:12:34

On Thursday 28 May 2009 04:53:18 pm troy d. straszheim wrote:
> In no particular order:
>
> - There is still the toplevel filesystem.hpp and friends to deal with.
> You can't move libraries around as a unit (which is the desired
> capability, right?).
>
> - You can't tell what headers don't belong to any 'project'.
>
> - It is a lot harder to recursively search for function 'foo' in the
> headers; you're going to get hits from examples, tests, docs, etc.
>
> - It makes it possible to include things you're not supposed to, e.g.
> private headers from other projects.  

One possible way to do this is to stage/install public headers in similar ways 
as is done with libs:

- stage/install all modified headers
- build libs with include paths set to staging/install area
- stage/install libs
- build and run tests

-- 
Bjørn