Re: [boost] Boost policy for putting headers in boost/ Was: #3541 Support <boost/ptr_map.hpp>

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost policy for putting headers in boost/ Was: #3541 Support <boost/ptr_map.hpp>
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-23 12:00:30

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On Friday 23 October 2009, Eric Niebler wrote:
> I don't like the idea of a boost/<lib>/all.hpp header. Does that really
> drag in everything? Debug utilities? Boost.Python integration?
> Boost.Serialization support? Typeof registrations? Support for Zlib and
> Bzip compression that will require downloading, configuring, building,
> and linking to additional external libraries? I find all.hpp headers
> generally useless.

How do these objections to boost/D/all.hpp not also apply when it is called 
boost/D.hpp?

> > File D.hpp is either standalone (if no directory D exists) or includes
> > all files in subdirectory D.
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