Re: [boost] New boost packaging suggestion for windows

Subject: Re: [boost] New boost packaging suggestion for windows
From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-05 15:36:36

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> Eric Niebler wrote:
>> Steven Watanabe wrote:
>>> troy d. straszheim wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:08 PM, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]>
>>>>>> I'm hoping Troy can give us a public report on the modularization 
>>>>>> effort.  Troy?
>>>>
>>>> I suppose a picture is worth a thousand words:
>>>>
>>>>   http://sodium.resophonic.com/boost/boost-dependencies.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Please stop reading now and look at that.  Look for cycles and
>>>> dependencies that don't seem to make sense.
>>>
>>> I actually don't see /very/ much there that doesn't make sense.
>>
>> I do. Why does spirit depend on xpressive?
> 
> AFAICT it doesn't now.  This may be an artifact from when
> proto lived under xpressive?
> 
>> Why does xpressive depend on intrusive?
> 
> Again it doesn't directly.  I have no idea why this dependency appears.
> 
>> And why *doesn't* proto depend on mpl?
> 
> The graph displayed is incomplete.  proto depends on fusion which 
> depends on
> function_type which depends on mpl.
> 
>> These are just the first three things I checked. :-P
> 

Right you are.  Links to new versions and tabular format included.

Feeling shamed into redoing it, I wrote a script that assumes that if 
file boost/X/F.hpp includes file boost/Y/f.hpp, then project X depends 
on Y.  For toplevel files, if a file boost/K.hpp exists as well as a 
directory boost/K, then an include of boost/K.hpp is a dependency on K. 
  for files boost/R.hpp where no subdirectory R exists, the dependency 
is either determined via an incomplete hand-constructed list of mappings 
from file to project, or the dependency is on special project 
UNCATEGORIZED.  If a file is found that includes a file that does not 
exist, the dependency is on project MISSING.

Script is here:

   http://sodium.resophonic.com/boost/depgraph.py

output in tabular form:

   http://sodium.resophonic.com/boost/dependencies.txt

and in pdf form:

   http://sodium.resophonic.com/boost/dependencies.pdf

Enjoy,

-t